[governance] Update from today's MAG call

[JFC Morfin]

At 15:02 31/07/2013, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>So it seems clear that the IGF is not in direct danger of getting 
>commercialized - that objectionable Indonesian fundraising strategy 
>has simply been declared dead

Norbert, Anriette,

OpenStand does not mean commercialization but legitimate or 
over-corporatization (that depends on the cooperation others bring or not).

-  The point here is not logos/banners (this is already the on-line 
case: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/funding/86-donors).
-  The point is about the ongoing research that is needed to further 
the evolution of the Internet. IAB has expressed its concerns and 
recommendations regarding this research and evolution. This is the 
IAB "Research Funding Recommendations" RFC 3869.

IAB RFC 3869 states: "The principal thesis of this document is that 
if commercial funding is the main source of funding for future 
Internet research, the future of the Internet [] could be in 
trouble.  In addition to issues about which projects are funded, the 
funding source can also affect the content of the research, for 
example, towards or against the development of open standards, or 
taking varying degrees of care about the effect of the developed 
protocols on the other traffic on the Internet."

IAB RFC 3869 also states: "The IAB believes that it would be helpful 
for governments and other non-commercial sponsors to increase their 
funding of both basic research and applied research relating to the 
Internet, and to sustain these funding levels going forward."

2005 WSIS Tunis Agenda has mandated the IGF to be principally a 
discussion forum to facilitate a multilogue among stakeholders and 
"identify emerging issues, bring them to the attention of the 
relevant bodies and the general public, and, where appropriate, make 
recommendations". Reasonnable corporate influence, pressure and 
lobbying is legitimate. What is a fault is the lack of governments 
(and their international organizations) funding and civil-society non 
commercial voluntary work coordination.

There is no fault with the corporations – RFC 6852 is complementary 
to RFC 3869 (but it does not explain how, what RFC 2870 [IAB Charter] 
calls for). There is a need for Governments to understand their 
digital obligations and for us to efficiently protect our digital 
rights. I have no problem with a plan, but I cannot deploy it alone. 
Several times we have started it but then we shot it down ourselves. 
Several times we also achieved some precautionary successes.

I hope that we succeed this time. It is only a question of 
complementarity and determination within the bootstrap secretariat. 
Not of T&L expenses.

jfc



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