[WSIS CS-Plenary] Spam as an issue

[Yulia Timofeeva]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:47:12 -0500, John Mathiason
<jrmathia at maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:
>   My own
> preference is to have an international agreement on the norm (including
> an agreement about what constitutes "spam") and an understanding that
> any state that doesn't deal with it is in violation of the norm...
>   If, however, there is a
> international understanding about the norm, national laws can
> consistently deal with it.   Of course, the next problem is how to
> agree on the norm.

I agree, but exactly that is why spam is not an issue for WGIG.
Governments can agree on legal definition of spam without involvement
of civil society – it's one of the few areas where I would trust them
:)

Best,
Yulia