[governance] A couple of posts about the ITU and state control of the Internet

[Sérgio Alves Jr.]

Dear Nick,





Being involved with the Brazilian preparation for WCIT-12, I can express my
feelings that this US memorandum is much more realistic about what we
expect to happen in Dubai than most posts I have been reading here.



Abraços,

Sérgio





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*"US memo: ITU's Dubai meeting not likely to affect Internet Governance"*

by Milton Mueller

http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2012/1/30/4988735.html



“A memo from the US government dated January 23, 2012, makes it clear that
the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) to
be held in Dubai this December poses little threat of a "takeover" of the
Internet by intergovernmental institutions.



(...)



According to the US memo, that strategy was completely successful. "*The
existing ITRs have been accepted as the framework for negotiations," the
memo says. "There are no pending proposals to invest the ITU with
ICANN-like Internet governance authority.*"



(...)



But why, we must ask, are some journalists, consultants, and even U.S.
government officials still going around saying that WCIT-12 is set to
become some kind of battle royale over the future of Internet
governance<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html>?
Why are people like David
Gross<http://www.npr.org/2012/01/12/145125429/who-should-control-the-internet-some-say-the-u-n>
 and Phil Wieser,
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html> advisors
or ambassadors to the US government, quoted in these articles as if they
are deeply concerned about the Internet sliding into some Russo-Chinese
statist abyss?* If, as the memo says, the US wishes to expand the coalition
of actors paying attention to WCIT-12, does it think that scaring people
with false or inflated threats is an appropriate way to do so?* Why not
make the case for further liberalization of international markets honestly,
on the merits?”

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Em 10 de março de 2012 18:15, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro>escreveu:

> Good evening list members
>
> I thought I would send along details of two posts that I hope will be of
> interest to you all:
>
> First, Matthias Langenegger of CCIA has a blog post of his experience at
> the recent HRC panel discussion of human rights on the Internet in Geneva
> (and the attempts by Russia, China, and friends to disrupt the meeting
> etc.) The blog post is here:
> http://www.ccianet.org/index.asp?bid=89&BlogEntryID=224&FormID=300&catid=0
>
> Also by CCIA, the CEO has a Huffington Post OpEd on the threats to the
> open Internet posed by these countries' agendas being pushed at the ITU:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-j-black/uns-itu-could-become-next_b_1332768.html
>
> Have a good weekend :)
>
> All the best, Nick
>
>
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