AW: [governance] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

Thu Oct 10 03:48:41 EDT 2013

Hi Jeremy,

I disagree. The Brazil-ICANN initiaitve is (and has to be) part of the "stumbling forward" process around IG. It is and can not be an alternative neither to the IGF nor to the WGEC or the various initiatives in the Human Rights Council the 1st and 2nc Committee of the UNGA, the WSIS 10+ process and even the forthcoming ITU PP. What we see is that more and more stakeholders want to have a concrete output and that regional and one-stakeholder projects get "globalized" and "multistakeholderized". 

wolfgang

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Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von Jeremy Malcolm
Gesendet: Do 10.10.2013 05:24
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Betreff: Re: [governance] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

On 10/10/13 06:33, John Curran wrote:

	On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> <mailto:avri at acm.org>  wrote:

		Do I understand correctly: according to this the President of ICANN has just agreed with the need for external oversight of ICANN, and unnamed other organizations, involved in governance/management of the Internet, just as long as it is multistakeholder?

	It appears to be a significant effort to address Internet Governance 
	challenges, including acceleration of the globalization of ICANN towards 
	an environment in which all stakeholders (including all governments) can 
	participate on an equal footing...

It puts civil society to shame in how timid we, at large, have been in proposing similar advances on the status quo.  (I have not made much of a secret of the fact that I was disappointed in the number of endorsements that the Best Bits statement on enhanced cooperation (http://bestbits.net/ec) received, though in part I accept that this was because the statement was simply too long.)

This has also, in one stroke, determined the IGF's future.  Of course the writing has been on the wall for the IGF for a while now, but it has now officially become irrelevant in terms of its larger role in multi-stakeholder Internet governance as originally anticipated in the Tunis Agenda.  Of course it will continue to have a role as a discussion forum, but the momentum for it to fulfil a  larger role has moved elsewhere.

It also neutralises the effect of the old guard of the technical community (ISOC mainly) at the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.  Whilst they can still oppose meaningful implementation of enhanced cooperation reforms, this opposition is now utterly token and ineffectual.  With Brazil (and ICANN!) having lost patience and are forging ahead regardless, this leaves anyone arguing against reforms at the WGEC looking silly and irrelevant. 

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