[governance] IGF 2012 - CIR?

Mon Feb 27 06:35:10 EST 2012

Yes, I do know ISOC is participating. I will try to be in the San José
workshop you mention.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 02/27/2012 06:40 AM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I'm on a train to a meeting in Bern so not me, and I'm unaware of any
> other IGC members.  I believe Markus and maybe some other ISOC staff
> will attend.   However, some ISOC, business, and government people
> plus myself will talk about WCIT at the workshop, ICANN and the
> Internet Governance Landscape, which will be held 17:30-19:00 Monday
> 12 March at the ICANN San Jose meeting.  I assume there'll be a
> webcast if anyone's interested.
>> 
>> On 02/26/2012 02:11 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> I believe I did, before the chair pretty much stopped calling on
> observers.  Whether this will be reflected in the next roll of the
> synthesis paper or be taken up in the CIR planning group is rather
> unknowable at this point, which goes to a larger set of issues that
> has been unfolding while this list's been preoccupied with other
> matters.  This concerns how the working groups formed to plan the
> main sessions will be managed.
> 
> The last couple years, the MAG meetings held in May formed MAG +
> groups that were open to non-MAG participation, which inter alia
> ended up meaning that Avri and I were able to join the WG planning
> the CIR session at Nairobi (which had been all TC and business) and
> advocate inclusion of a discussion of the IBSA enhanced cooperation
> proposal.  That discussion proved to be a useful opportunity for
> stakeholders from around the world to provide feedback on an
> intergovernmental initiative—precisely the sort of thing the IGF
> mandate envisioned.  In the same vein, one would think it useful for
> the IGF to provide stakeholders a chance to provide feedback on the
> WCIT's planned revision of the International Telecommunication
> Regulations, the result of a multi-year process that has gone on with
> little transparency and no multistakeholder participation.
> 
> However, it's not clear whether we'll be in a position to advocate
> this or anything else as an alternative to the rather anodyne topics
> mentioned below. The February meeting of the outgoing MAG went ahead
> and appointed some of its members as WG facilitators (1 of 6 being
> CS) and is said to have agreed (although none of the CS people in
> attendance seems to have heard this discussion) that past practice
> will be jettisoned and the WGs will be open to MAG members
> only---notwithstanding CS' clear inability to populate six WGs with
> just a couple current MAG members.  This has been the subject of some
> fairly intensive debate off list, and I gather the MAG is considering
> possible solutions.  Perhaps our remaining MAG representatives would
> like to elaborate.
> 
> Bottom line, there needs to be full and balanced MS participation in
> these working groups, and the Baku main sessions' agendas should not
> be set before we have representation either by new MAG members or
> non-MAGers who are in a position to effectively contribute to the
> work, both F2F in May and online.  One would think that "no 3-legged
> chairs" should not be a controversial proposition...
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bill
> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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