AW: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva

[wolfgang at imv.au.dk]

Dear all,

we agreed (more or less) in Geneva that we will start something like an "on-line publication series" of the Caucus ("CS Internet ICT Governance Caucus Papers"). The subjects of papers should be chosen mainly from the issues which will pop up from the agenda of the new WG which Kofi Annan has to establish. The main issue here is at the moment "definition of internet governance" and "interdependence and/or relationship between political and technical aspects of IG". 

We have three options now: 

Option One is to start a discussion for a "joint statement" (which would be more a political paper) and could be a common interpretation of Article 48ff. of the WSIS declaration and C6 13 of the WSIS Action Plan by the Caucus. This paper could be also the send to the CS Plenary for endorsement, so that this paper would be the position of the CS Plenary. 

Option Two is that individual Caucus members write short papers (one or two pages) to various aspects of the two governmental WSIS documents (multistakeholder approach, openess, inclusive, multiligualism, stable and secure functioning of the Internet, regional root serves, facilitating role of intergovernmental organisation, important role of civil society organisations on community level , important role of private sector in technical and economic fields, sovereign rights of states in internet related public policy issues etc.) Pratically, each single word of Articles 48, 49 and 50 and C6, 13 b., c., and d. could be the subject of a short paper. 

Option Three is to start a discussion on a "definition". I propose that Jeanette and Adam, as the two candidates for overtaking the facilitating role of the caucus, draft a "Request for Comment". On the basis of such a "CS IG RFC" a definition can evolve bottom up. 

Hopefully some results can be presented already in the ITU Geneva Workshop, the ICANN Rome meeting (the week after the ITU Workshop) and the UN ICT Taks Force Meeting (two weeks later on March 25 - 29, 2004) in New York. 

One opportunity to prepare this in a F2F meeting, at least for people living in Geneva, Switzerland, Austria and Germany could be the ICANN Studienkreis Meeting (now Domain Pulse) in Zuerich, February, 5 - 6, 2004. 


Best wishes

wolfgang



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Von: Amali De Silva <amalidesilva at yahoo.com>
An: plenary at wsis-cs.org
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Betreff: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva

Should Civil Society Plenary / CT / IG caucus put together a position paper / concept paper to be circulated to all government delegations well before the ITU Internet Governance Work Shop ? This document could be presented by the IG caucus on behalf of CS at the work-shop itself.
 
Each caucus could work on the impact / relevance / importanance  /  themes / "must have" s etc of  aspects of IG for their particular area. 
 
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
 
Vancouver Community Network, Canada
 
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