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

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 01/07/12 21:00, parminder wrote:
> 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.

To answer this rhetorical question, it is because for many the UN is a
bogeyman.  In truth of course, the UN and its agencies are largely
toothless and nothing to be scared of, the authoritarian regimes on one
side balancing out the the corporate plutocracies on the other.  Indeed
we have more to fear from the continued lack of a body such as the CIRP,
that could help to shape the behaviour actions of governments and
corporations, than from its existence (particularly in the absence of an
effective IGF, either).

But this means that we can wait another few years to a decade until the
status quo is more widely seen as intolerable and a UN-hosted body
becomes a more palatable alternative, or we can simply excise the "UN"
part of the CIRP and promote that the committee be a free-standing
international body that would join the IETF and ICANN in their own areas
of competence as a policy advisory body, albeit that governments would
in that case be less attracted to participate in it as its authority
would be less.

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