[governance] Proposal for IGC to formally respond to "Please Cameroon did not shut down the Internet !!!"

[Mawaki Chango]

Norbert, I think we can certainly have a statement that starts with
recalling a number of relevant general principles and the formulation of
IGC principled position on the issue at hand. And then have the second part
of the statement focus on addressing the ISOC Chapter. (This is fair
enough, in my view, since we've been particularly alarmed by a comment the
chapter president made, which has triggered the move for the statement.
Whether the president was expressing the official position of the chapter
or not doesn't matter a whole lot, because the simple fact that he would
say that indicates that he would most probably not move the chapter, by
himself, to take a stance against what is happening in the country wrt
Internet access for all.)

This and the other approach suggested by Barry are indeed not exclusive.
But I suspect the latter will take more time, so that could be a longer
term strategy if there's consensus within the Caucus (not saying it will
necessary be very long to get it done, although it might.) In the meantime
we might want to put out a principled position.

My cents... I'll keep it at that whatever the Caucus decides.
Cheers!

Mawaki


On Jan 30, 2017 5:09 AM, <bzs at theworld.com> wrote:


I'm admittedly a technical sort of person so my first reaction would
be to map out how Cameroon obtains internet ingress/egress and from
whom. Specifically to try to dig out the contracts if possible or at
least characterize them (e.g., obtain typical contracts for study.)

That might yield more effective pressure points such as within the ITU
as one contractual body though the facts would tend to direct where
attention should be paid.

What for example has Cameroon agreed in those mutual transit
contracts?

Are businesses outside of Cameroon financially disadvantaged in
reasonably measurable ways? It would be difficult to imagine that none
are.

Of course these various ideas are not mutually exclusive, they all can
be explored simultaneously.

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