[governance] ITU - summary of draft ITRs to date

[Roland Perry]

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<855077AC3D7A7147A7570370CA01ECD2184C30 at SUEX10-mbx-10.ad.syr.edu>, at 
14:42:13 on Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> writes
>7 years after we all agreed to engage in "enhanced cooperation" we
>have no consensus on what the term means, or whether it is happening or not,

And what's your view on UN-DESA's EC report put in front of CSTD a 
couple of years ago, full of feedback from various organisations on how 
they are getting on with it? None of them seemed to be in much doubt 
what it meant, or whether it was happening.

 >I draw the opposite conclusion; the verbal formulations in the Tunis 
 >Agenda, like the ITRs, actually have very little control over what 
 >really happens.

In the ITU world they rely *very* heavily on previously agreed wording 
to advance whatever agenda/programme they are currently discussing. The 
trail today often leads back a decade, when it comes to "you asked to do 
this, and here we are, still trying to do it".

eg I refer you to Resolution 146 from WTPF 2009 (Review of the ITRs) 
which invokes Antalya 2006, Marrakesh 2002 and Melbourne 1988.

<http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/wtpf/wtpf2009/documents/ITUresolution146_ITRs
_PP06.html>

[Posted more for atmosphere than content].
-- 
Roland Perry

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