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

[michael gurstein]

Aren't we rather mixing up processes with outcomes here. What is important
surely is the outcome not the process,  with the effectiveness or
desireability of a process being determined by how well it achieves the
desired outcomes.  Perhaps that is the message that Ms. Rousseff was trying
to convey when she substituted the use of the term "multilateral" for the
rather over-used and ill-defined terminology of "multistakeholderism".

M

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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
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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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