[governance] AUDIO: State of the Net 2013 WCIT Panel

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Having now listened to the conversation, I find you comments curious.


I did not listen to the audio. The conference summary in Michael's post was
explicit enough.

>

In what way did it keep paranoia alive?  Whose paranoia? Of what?
>

See Milton's article, with which I agree.

ITU Phobia: Why WCIT was derailed
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/12/18/itu-phobia-why-wcit-was-derailed/

>
> And I must say, being somewhat conversant with the Joe McCarthy and the
> Times, that I did not understand this point either, can you explain the
> ways in which this was McCarthyesque.
>
> Well known witch hunt on "communists" in the 50's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

Louis

>
> thanks
>
> avri
>
> - - -
>
> On 1 Feb 2013, at 05:36, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
>
> > Great. Keep the paranoia on the front page.
> > Sounds like Jo McCarthy's times.
> > Louis
> > - - -
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:55 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Some of you may have missed this invitation...
> >
> > M
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2013/wcit.shtml
> >
> > No Rest for the WCIT*: Charting An Affirmative Plan to Safeguarding
> Internet
> > Freedom!
> > Tuesday, January 22 2013
> >
> > AUDIO : http://www.netcaucus.org/audio/2013/20130122sotn-wcit.mp3
> >
> > Panelists:
> > - Fiona Alexander, Associate Administrator, Office of International
> Affairs,
> > National Telecommunications & Information Administration
> > (NTIA)
> > - Colin Crowell, Head of Global Public Policy, Twitter
> > - Jamie Hedlund, Vice President, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
> and
> > Numbers (ICANN)
> > - Andrew McLaughlin, Chairman of the Board, Access
> > - Thomas O'Toole, Managing Editor, Electronic Commerce & Law Report,
> > Bloomberg BNA - Moderator
> >
> > It remains to be seen whether Internet stakeholders have prevented the UN
> > from seizing control of the Internet at last month's ITU World
> Conference on
> > International Telecommunications (WCIT). Regardless, for weary
> negotiators
> > it appears that the battle to keep the Internet free will be protracted.
> > There will ne no rest in the foreseeable future.
> >
> > On December 13, 2012 FCC Commissioner McDowell direly predicted that
> while
> > many of the "anti-freedom" WCIT proposals were turned back "the worst is
> yet
> > to come." More than ever Congress must become a more involved
> stakeholder.
> > Any substantive changes to the ITU treaty governing the Internet
> hopefully
> > would need to be ratified by the U.S. Senate. But threats to Internet
> > freedom could come from a variety of vectors. A panel of experts will
> > outline the long-term prospects for the Internet freedom fight and how
> > Congress can play a more consistent and constructive role.
> >
>
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