[governance] U.S. - Japan Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy

[McTim]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:44 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:

>
> On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:50 PM, Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:
>
> The United States and Japan held the fourth Director General-level meeting
> of the U.S.-Japan Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy in
> Washington, D.C.
>
>
> http://www.yumanewsnow.com/index.php/news/latest/1450-u-s-japan-policy-cooperation-dialogue-on-the-internet-economy
>
>
> From the agreement text:
>
>  Encouraging other countries to develop principles consistent with the
> “United States-Japan Trade Principles for Information and Communication
> Technology Services.
>
>
> SNIP
>
> ........For these reasons, industry representatives suggested the
> following activities:
>
> · U.S-Japan collaboration for establishing an international framework to
> support cloud computing.
>
> · Promoting the use of cloud computing in developing countries and
> reducing the digital divide.
>
> · Considering a range of policy issues, including: privacy, cloud
> computing security, digital content, interoperability, and portability.
>
>
> (quotes end)
>
> So rich countries merely go along developing 'global' principles for the
> Internet, and to 'encourage' other countries to follow / adopt them.
> Industry reps too want them to develop '*international *framework to
> support cloud computing', to promote use of cloud computing in developing
> countries, and to consider a range of policy issues....
>
> And when proposals like UN CIRP are made
>


This article, while certainly out of date given the recent detente twixt
ICANN and Minister Pilot discusses the birth of CIRP at some length:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2220692/How-India-helped-bunch-bureaucrats-custodians-Internet.html

It doesn't sound like there was a whole lot of MSism going on, at least not
the kind of MSism I have witnessed.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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