[governance] IGF and Enhanced Cooperation

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Sorry, I'll just disable the blasted digital signature for good.

On 01/06/12 17:11, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> My vision for Enhanced Cooperation is to put both areas together,
> jointly, under a single institutional "Enhanced Cooperation Task
> Force" framework, modeled to some extent on the IETF, and a single set
> of process principles that are designed to operate as closely as
> possible to what Daniel Kalchev calls "the 'common sense' law that
> every human being on this planet knows unconditionally". The output of
> this "Enhanced Cooperation Task Force" would be Request For Action
> (RFA) documents, which analogously to RFCs would not have direct legal
> force, but they'd be informative and persuasive and maybe eventually
> any government that doesn't follow the recommendations of the RFAs
> without giving really good reasons for choosing differently will get
> voted out of office quickly. 

Really interesting and audacious.  Back in 1997 ISOC formed an Internet
Societal Task Force (ISTF) that was intended as a counterpart to the
IETF and the IRTF, but dealing with public policy issues.  It never took
off due to lack of involvement by governments and was eventually
superseded by WSIS the following year.  Actually when I commenced my
doctoral studies on Internet governance my intention was also to propose
an IETF-like body for public policy issues, though what I eventually
proposed bore more less resemblance to the IETF.  Others (including
Avri) made similar proposals that the IGF should adopt an IETF-like
model: see http://www.intgovforum.org/contributions/IETF-as-model.pdf.

So whilst I would have opposed this if the CSTD had recommended to form
its on working group on EC, since they didn't, I would support us
forming one anyway, and inviting governments to participate in it.  I
foresee that they will ignore the invitation because the group hasn't
been formed by the UN, but let's do it anyway and see how much traction
the group can get without them.

-- 

*Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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