[governance] Re: [discuss] ITU - Internet related Resolutions

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

ITU bureaucracy makes for some very strange bedfellows.  Saudis siding with Iran of all countries  .. 

--srs (iPad)

> On 27-Oct-2014, at 14:27, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
> 
> The Saudis led, together with Iran, the literal destruction of the CSTD
> Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, on the grounds that "everything
> that had to be said and decided is already in the Tunis Agenda" (like a
> sacred text...).
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
>> On 10/27/2014 12:59 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> 
>> That's unclear. I'm sure some would say so, but their objections were not, by and large, seconded by other countries, while the OECD countries (and some African countries) we're supporting each other's positions in the dialog. 
>> 
>> 
>>                -Bill
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:08, "Adam" <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Adam <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> A document combining various Internet related resolutions being considered at the ITU Plenipotentiary is available on WCITLeaks.org.  These working docs not available through the ITU's website, seem to require ties account.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Internet related <http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/S14-PP-141020-DL-0011!!MSW-E.pdf>
>>>> 
>>>> We got through a good bit of this on Saturday afternoon, though with little to no substantive outcome, because of irreconcilable differences between Saudi Arabia and the OECD countries.  Debate continues this (Monday) evening.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is Saudi speaking for a large block of countries?  
>>> 
>>> Adam
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>                              -Bill
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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