[governance] IGF 2012 - CIR?

[Carlos A. Afonso]

I guess some of the people involved with IGC might be participating in
this week's CWG-WCIT in Geneva. It would be nice if we had a report in
this list after Feb.29, when the meeting ends.

--c.a.

On 02/26/2012 02:11 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> Dear c.a.
> 
> I agree with you strongly on this. But keep in mind that this synthesis
> paper only covers the Open Consultation.
> 
> At the MAG meeting sessions were discussed in far more detail, and I
> think that Bill Drake might have mentioned WCIT 2012 as being very
> important.
> 
> Best
> 
> Anriette
> 
> 
> 
> On 26/02/12 15:59, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>> Dear people,
>>
>> The February synthesis paper of the open consultations published in the
>> IGF official site mentions the following regarding "critical Internet
>> resources":
>>
>> --- begin doc citation ---
>>
>> 25. In terms of Critical Internet Resources it was seen by several
>> commentators that further debate is needed around issues such as the
>> institutional structure of IG, including the future of ICANN, IP
>> addressing, root servers and Internet exchange points.
>>
>> 26. Several suggestions were made for the Critical Internet Issues
>> theme, including, inter alia;
>>
>> • Best Practices for eliminating barriers to access to the Internet;
>>
>> • IPv6 and the impact and opportunities for the developing world that
>> may result from the transition to IPv6 and how does the coming depletion
>> of IPv4 addresses affect developing countries?
>>
>> • What is the effect of the deployment of multilingual domain names,
>> i.e. IDN.IDN?
>>
>> • Issues of ICANN's naming policy and the impact of the new gTLDs and
>> IDN gTLDs;
>>
>> • Technical issues such as DNS blocking and how such technical issues
>> drive or impact policy.
>>
>> --- end doc citation ---
>>
>> In light of the ongoing ITU process leading to WCIT 2012 aiming at,
>> among other goals, radically revising the 1988 ITR to try to take
>> account of the ICT challenges posed by the Internet, I think the above
>> points are far from sufficient.
>>
>> At a minimum, IGF's CIR "track" should include a review of the ITU
>> meetings' outcomes.
>>
>> fraternal regards
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
> 

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