[governance] enhanced cooperation 2 - other/general public policy issues

[parminder]

Hi All

Oversight of tech coordination functions is one part of what has been 
called as 'enhanced cooperation' (EC). The other part, which I consider 
as much more important, but generally neglected in the EC discussions, 
concerns other or general Internet related public policy issues. The 
best way to understand these sets of functions is to look at the work of 
OECD's Committee on Information, Communications and Computers Policy 
(CCICP), and also at Council of Europe's Internet policy mechanisms.  
These Internet policy mechanisms do not 'directly' deal with issues 
under the ambit of the bodies managing Internet's critical 
infrastructure (the ICANN + system).

These internet policy mechanisms have come up policy frameworks and 
guidelines like Principles for Internet related Policies, Intermediary 
guidelines, are also looking into search engine guidelines, and social 
network guidelines, and so on....... These bodies also facilitate 
treaties on Internet related issues among the member countries (OECD's 
ACTA, CoE's cybersecurity treaty, etc).....

So, after looking at the 'oversight' issue, as we did on this list for 
the last few weeks, the second key point of the 'enhanced cooperation' 
discussion is how to institutionally deal with /*general Internet 
related public policy issues/* (to demarcate them from those directly 
connecting to CIR management). These 'global' policy issues are today 
being undemocratically dealt by bodies whose membership is limited to a 
few richest countries.

Why should these /*general Internet related public policy issues/* 
(GPPIs) not be considered by institutions and bodies that have 
representation of all countries, rich and developing ones. Civil 
Society, and IGC, need to answer this question.

Remove the oversight function of India's proposed UN Committee on 
Internet Related Policies (something I think India, and other CIRP 
backers, may be willing to consider) and we have almost the exact 
function and structure as of OECD's CCICP, but with all countries being 
present rather than just the rich ones. (and a more expansive 
participation model than the CCICP).

   On what basis can we be opposed to such an institutional structure, 
as one way of taking forward 'enhanced cooperation'? This is an 
important part of the enhanced cooperation discussion. Especially, for 
civil society, which is perhaps more concerned with social, economic, 
cultural and political issues rather than security, technical etc issues 
which more centrally implicated on the 'oversight' side of enhanced 
cooperation.

parminder


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