[governance] Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 27/03/2013, at 1:04 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

> Exclusionary? That's yet another canard - or at least a gross
> oversimplification of a rather more nuanced situation.
> 
> Meanwhile, try registering for and walking into an ICANN meeting anywhere
> in the world, and see if you get excluded. No? I thought not ..

So we would like to see that kind of openness in the institutions that are developing global policies for Internet governance issues besides naming and numbering (to the extent that these even exist).  For example, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is currently negotiating what may become de-facto global rules for the Internet, such as obligations to secure the free flow of information (including personal data) across borders, extending copyright law to cover temporary electronic copies such as those made by Internet intermediaries, imposing a globalised DMCA for content take-down, and much more.  These are the kind of issues that we say should be developed through a transparent, multi-stakeholder process, not an exclusionary, closed door one.  In ten years time, the technical community representatives who are now opposing such reforms will look as short-sighted for doing so as they now look for having previously opposed the formation of the IGF.  

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