[governance] IGF and Enhanced Cooperation

[Marilia Maciel]

Hi Norbert,

I think that the questions you propose are good. Could you just explain a
little further why you believe we should not separate CIR and non-CIR? I
think that a neat separation would bring more clarity to the debate.

It would be great if we could refine this proposal and define a concrete
way forward.

Marília


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> > I think there are two key sides of the EC issue - (1) on tech gov side,
> > the current unilateral oversight of CIRs is the main issue, and some
> > concerns about capture of tech standards bodies an additional issue (2)
> > on the side of social, eco, cultural policies pertaining to the
> > Internet, with global significance, the kind of work OECD's Committee on
> > ICCP does is the main focus, along with other instances of uni- and
> > pluri-lateralism, and also increasing dominance of private regulation....
>
> I agree that it is important to keep these two aspects in mind, and to
> be careful to avoid misunderstandings where some of the participants
> in a conversation are thinking about only one of these aspects and other
> participants are thinking only about the other of these aspects.
>
> But I don't think that it is a good idea to structure any discussion of
> Enhanced Cooperation into first addressing one of these aspects and
> then addressing the other aspect.
>
> > If anyone want to suggest some other schema, sure, it is most welcome.
>
> How about the following?
>
> 1. Building a shared understanding of the set of problems for which
>   Enhanced Cooperation should provide better solutions
>
>   (a) What is unacceptable / intolerable in the status quo of
>       existing Internet governance institutions and processes?
>
>   (b) What are the problems for which the existing Internet
>       governance institutions and processes have failed to
>       deliver adequate solutions?
>
>   (c) What are the areas in which copperation of countries on
>       a smaller than global level (e.g. regional coopration or
>       cooperation of countries facing similar economic challenges)
>       might be productive?
>
> 2. Building a shared understanding of what makes these problems
>   difficult
>
>   (a) What has prevented adequate solutions for these problems
>       from emerging before now?
>
>   (b) Documentation of the solution attempts that have been
>       undertaken so far.
>
> 3. Proposals of principles, institutional mechanisms and processes
>   for Enhanced Cooperation
>
>   (a) What are the proposals?
>
>   (b) In what ways will these propasals, if implemented, improve
>       the situation?
>
> > But we must first develop a basic level of agreement on categories and
> > key issue areas for discussion before we try to seek substantive
> > convergences on the way forward, solutions, appropriate institutional
> > models etc.
>
> There is a lot of truth in this, yes, but on the other hand there
> isn't going to be a lot of motivation for working towards agreement
> on categories and key issue areas for discussion before there is a
> vision, a living hope that it will indeed be possible to achieve
> something worthwhile under the theme of "Enhanced Cooperation".
>
> I have this hope now, while before I had this, I didn't have much
> interest in participating in a debate on the fundamentals for this.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
>
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