[governance] Update from today's MAG call

[Kivuva]

Anything said withing the confines of a UN convened meeting is  deemed
to be immune from any form of prosecution.

But that is not to rule any means a foreign government might take to
silence it's critics. This has happened before

On 31/07/2013, JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
> 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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