[governance] BMP} Statement on Process and Objectives for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance

[michael gurstein]

A belated reply, but I support the document (in the interests of achieving a consensus perhaps it would be possible to fuzzify McTim's point of disagreement--I've indicated one possibility on the pad) and would ask that it move forward to some speedy conclusion and distribution.

M

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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Norbert Bollow
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 1:03 PM
To: IGC
Subject: [governance] BMP} Statement on Process and Objectives for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance

Dear all

>From Carlos Afonso I have learned that it would be valuable at the present stage for civil society networks like the IGC to make statements in regard to the planned Global Multistakeholder Meeting aiming at ensuring that the process will be a genuinely open (in particular to all kinds of civil society perspectives) multistakeholder process -- similar to what APC has already emphasized in a recent statement.

I've set up a pad with an initial draft:

http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/brazil2014-process-objectives

This initial text has been very significantly inspired by (and in some parts in fact copied verbatim from) the relevant parts of APC's statement (if these parts of the statement end up going through the IGC consensus process unchanged, we should probably give explicit credit in some way.)

Here's a copy of this initial draft text:

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Statement of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus on Process and Objectives for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance

As an international civil society network that has emerged from the WSIS process, the Internet Governance Caucus sees the planned Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance as a huge opportunity.

In order for this opportunity to be fully utilized and not wasted, we urge the organizers to base the Global Meeting on a democratic deliberative process. In particular,

  * Transparent, open, inclusive and participatory mechanisms must be
    established for the involvement of the widest possible variety of
    stakeholders, in the planning and organisation of the summit, from
    its inception, both in regard to issues of processes and substance.

  * Participation in the meeting should be linked to an online
    consultation process similar to the one successfully employed by
    Brazilian government and society to draft the “Marco Civil”, and in
    the selection of participants preference should be given to people
    and institutions who have participated actively in this online
    process through making written submissions. This should be the case
    for all the stakeholders, including governments.

  * Drafting groups responsible for capturing outputs should be
    appointed prior to the event, and include representatives from a
    wide variety of stakeholder groups.

The Global Meeting should be focused on creating, through accountable and transparent processes, concrete outcome documents in these two main
areas:

1) Internationalisation of ICANN and IANA: The Global Meeting should aim at develping a concrete solution how the desired internationalization can be achieved.

2) An international set of principles (or a civil framework) for internet policy making that are fully harmonised with existing human rights agreements, especially in regard to ensuring in the context of Internet communications and cloud computing that any exceptions to the "right to privacy" and "right to anonymity" principles are necessary and proportionate.
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Are you in support of IGC making such a statement?

Do you see needs for changes?

Greetings,
Norbert



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