[governance] ITU - summary of draft ITRs to date

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> 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.

First, I have too much respect for the value of my time to read those documents. But having seen and heard the ideas of various players, I am sure that the organizations' submissions followed very predictable patterns. Those who support the IG status quo provided examples of how EC is going swimmingly (I hoisted a beer with Toure in Angola!) those who don't, provided evidence of how the IGF in their opinion has failed to advance it. 

> 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".

True, but in a trivial sense. So yes, if you pass a resolution that says "UN agencies will follow up on WSIS-related activities every 5 years, then UN agencies will do that. But that will have no effect on how the Internet runs and works, and that is what I was talking about. 

--MM

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