[governance] ITU - summary of draft ITRs to date

[Roland Perry]

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<855077AC3D7A7147A7570370CA01ECD2184D02 at SUEX10-mbx-10.ad.syr.edu>, at 
15:49:24 on Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> writes
>Let me give you a more specific example.
>
>A proposed change in the ITRs says,
>
>8A.4 "Member States shall take measures to ensure Internet stability and security, to fight cybercrime and to counter spam, while protecting
>and respecting the provisions for privacy and freedom of expression as contained in the relevant parts of the Universal Declaration of Human
>Rights."
>
>Now if that passes, do you think the presence or absence of that provision in a treaty will have any impact whatsoever on the stability,
>security of the Internet, the level of spam, or the privacy and foe rights of Internet users? Do you think that the complex trade-offs between
>freedom of expression, privacy, and fighting cybercrime that have to be operationalized in the real world by ISPs, users and states are
>affected in any significant way by that?

I do, because one the main planks of the ITU's ambition is to be tasked 
with sorting out Cybercrime, and that will at the very least mean an 
ITU-inspired clone of the Budapest Convention (as a proposal for 
adoption by non-Budapest nations).

That might well affect the rights of Internet users in those counties, 
if it doesn't come with the safeguards enshrined in ratifying Budapest 
(briefly: that you also have to match the ECHR as well).

As for Spam, I think their solution might be universal end-to-end 
authenticated email, and that's a whole can of worms.
-- 
Roland Perry

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