[governance] DMP} Draft letter text - IGC consensus process

Rafik Dammak rafik.dammak at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 05:02:02 EDT 2013


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Hi Bill,

You agree with the letter?we cannot wait to have more info?

Rafik
On Oct 12, 2013 5:59 PM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I agree with Anriette that the shorter version is better and the IGF
> should be mentioned.  The statement could be seen and the summit will
> presumably involve governments that have  been dismissive or opposed to the
> IGF and multistakeholder more generally, so it'd be good to underscore the
> need for open and inclusive dialogue before the summit is taken up in the
> GA or other settings.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
> On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
> wrote:
>
> I would add just one reference to the final paragraph of this shorter
> version which I think is very good.
>
> In view of the global importance of this subject, we look forward to
> discussing it further at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Bali,
> and to contributing
> to your initiative with specific and concrete proposals.
>
> I am not opposed to this letter, but still leaning toward's Anja and
> other's advice to wait a while. I also feel the letter
> I also believe we need to be consistent. When the 2011 IBSA proposal was
> made by India and Brazil there was an outcry in the IGF community and
> all three governments were urged to discuss these proposals at the IGF
> before tabling them at the GA?
>
> Do we no longer think this is important?
>
> Anriette
>
>
> On 11/10/2013 21:35, Lee W McKnight wrote:
>
> Quick edit of last paragraph.
>
> Lee
> ________________________________________
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [
> governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Ian Peter [
> ian.peter at ianpeter.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 3:31 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Norbert Bollow
> Subject: Re: [governance] DMP} Draft letter text - IGC consensus process
>
> Far too long. If we are to send anything, here is a suggested shorter
> version.
>
> Your Excellency President Rousseff and other representatives of
> the Brazilian government
>
> We, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals from
> around the world, would like to express our appreciation and support
> for the recently announced initiative of the government of Brazil,
> along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> (ICANN), to “discuss the necessary changes to Internet governance” and
> to restore trust in the Internet as the foundation of our global
> information societies.
>
> We consider these to be discussions of crucial importance for the
> future of the development of the Internet in the global public interest
> and for the shared benefit of the peoples of the world.
>
> In view of the global importance of this subject, we look forward to
> contributing
> to your initiative with specific and concrete proposals.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norbert Bollow
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:29 AM
> To: IGC
> Subject: [governance] DMP} Draft letter text - IGC consensus process
>
> Here is the current content of the etherpad where informal drafting has
> taken place:
>
> --snip------------------------------------------------------------------
> Letter from International Civil Society Organizations to the government
> of Brazil in regard to the planned event on Internet governance in 2014
>
> Your Excellency President Rousseff and other representatives of
> the Brazilian government
>
> We, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals from
> around the world, would like to express our appreciation and support
> for the recently announced initiative of the government of Brazil,
> along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> (ICANN), to “discuss the necessary changes to Internet governance” and
> to restore trust in the Internet as the foundation of our global
> information societies.
>
> We consider these to be discussions of crucial importance for the
> future of the development of the Internet in the global public interest
> and for the shared benefit of the peoples of the world.
>
> In view of the global importance of this subject, we look to civil
> society being an equal partner to this dialogue at all stages from
> agenda-setting onwards, and that the preparatory process for the
> planned event be open and transparent and inclusive of all interested
> parties.  This process should be particularly focused on realizing the
> broadest base of shared benefits for the global community including
> support for economic and social development, and innovation in pursuit
> of the resolution of significant matters of broad impact and concern.
>
> We further note with appreciation that Brazil has a strong tradition
> and experience with effective partnerships with civil society on many
> important domestic and global issues, including most notably for this
> context the proposed Marco Civil for which we as international civil
> society organizations and individuals provide our strong endorsement,
> and the highly successful CGI model of Internet governance at the
> national level. This event presents an outstanding opportunity to move
> these experiences forward into the emerging area of global Internet
> governance.  The discussions should be action-oriented, proposing
> concrete measures to democratise and internationalise global Internet
> governance.
>
> We look forward to learning more details of the event as
> they emerge and to contributing to this with specific and concrete
> proposals which will be the subject of discussion during upcoming
> meetings during the Bali IGF.
>
> The undersigned civil society organisations from across the world offer
> their support to your initiative and will look forward to partnering in
> its various processes as they evolve.
>
> We look forward to contributing to the successful development of the
> global Internet governance event in 2014 and to the new mechanisms and
> arrangements that develop from it.
>
> Yours sincerely
> --snap------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I personally would have preferred a simpler and shorter letter (and one
> that is more specifically from IGC) but since this is what has come out
> of an informal drafting process in which quite a few IGC members have
> already participated, I feel that it may be best to take this as the
> starting point for the IGC consensus process.
>
> The idea here is that I hope that IGC can reach consensus (or at least
> rough consensus) on either accepting this text as-is, or on some
> some modified version is derived from this, and that we'd then put that
> up also inviting civil society organizations as well as individuals to
> endorse.
>
> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
>
> Please post any disagreements regarding the draft text together with a
> specific proposal for a change and your justification for why you ask
> for this change.
>
> In view of the situation that the letter can be expected to be most
> effective if it is ready soon, please give this process a high priority
> and post change requests as quickly as reasonably possible. I have no
> idea yet what will be appropriate in regard to consensus process
> deadlines. Just in case we might end in an unpleasantly
> time-constrained situation where tight deadlines are needed, I'd like
> to request IGC members who strongly care about the specific details of
> the outcome of this consensus process to check their IGC email at
> least every twelve hours.
>
> The other thread, in which I invited any fundamental objection to such a
> letter to be voiced, is also still open.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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