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  • joly 4:47 pm on 12/07/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Milton Mueller: Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance – NYU 12/14 

    Milton MuellerISOC-NY is delighted to present Milton Mueller’s first full exposition of his new  book  Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance at NYU on Tuesday December 14 2010.  Prof. Mueller is a co-founder of ICANN’s NonCommercial User’s Constituency and a renowned cyberlibertarian.  His 2002 book Ruling the Root has long been the definitive work on governance.  We are excited to hear details of what, in his mind,  has changed in the last 8 years.  This event is open to the public and will be webcast live.

    What: Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance
    When: Tuesday December 14 2010 : 7-9pm
    Where: Rm 317, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 251 Mercer St NYC (& W. 4 St)
    Who: Public welcome.  No RSVP needed.  Photo ID required.
    Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/isocny
    Hashtag: #isocny
    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175907139093951
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  • joly 8:28 pm on 10/28/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    ITU ruefully agrees to share Internet Governance #icann #isoc #ietf #itu #igf #w3c 

    Monica Ehmert of IP-Watch has written a report on the recently concluded ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. She notes the tussle over recognizing the roles of independent organizations (such as the Internet Society) in the management of the Internet.

    The opposite position underlining ITU’s need to cooperate with existing self-governing internet organisations was provided by the Swedish delegate speaking for the 48 members of the “European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations” (CEPT). Changes both within the Union and in the cooperation with other organisations are necessary, the delegate said. “We need to be more efficient internally and we need to avoid overlap with the work done by other organisations. This is particularly important in the internet area.” The 2010 plenipotentiary decisions will “guide the ITU in the right direction,” the Swedish delegate said.

    Despite ITU making moves towards transparency apparently the key resolutions won’t be published until Feb 2011

    The whole package of internet-related resolutions (Resolutions 101, 102, 133 and a new resolution on the new internet protocol, or IPv6) was passed at a late hour on Thursday night, close to the end of the three-week meeting and it needed re-elected ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré’s urgent appeal for a compromise. For days, delegations mainly from the Arab world and from Russia had fought against a reference to the self-regulatory organisations like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in the internet resolutions.

    Proposals to transform ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee (GAC) into an “international committee, or create an (ITU) Council working group (…) with powers of supervision over ICANN,” or a “progressive cooperation agreement between ITU and ICANN and define a mechanism to increase the participation of governments” were all struck from the text. Also struck earlier in the Guadalajara meeting was a Russian proposal to integrate the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) whose future is on the agenda of the UN General Assembly this week. The IGF was an outcropping of the 2003-2005 ITU-led World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

    How, asked Syrian delegate Nabil Kisrawi, can an intergovernmental UN organisation like the ITU be considered to be on equal footing with a California-based private company like ICANN? An explanation of the concerns of the Arab countries came from the Saudi delegation. Some people just did not want the names of ICANN and the other self-regulatory bodies in the resolutions because, “we think that in fact there’s a risk of undermining the role of the ITU in the internet.” All countries are in favour of having ICANN work under international and not under California law, the Saudi delegation said.

    Touré’s last-minute compromise for the internet resolutions asked at least for “reciprocity” in the cooperative efforts of the ITU, ICANN and the other internet management organisations, and this formula is now part of all four internet-related resolutions of the ITU work plan for 2012-2015.

    Monica observes:

    A delegate from Russia said in the closing ceremony that the conference had stated “that the ITU is open for cooperation and is ready to take the first steps to bring closer together other organisations that are dealing with internet-related matters.” But, he said, the ITU is also “ready to take on itself a leading role in internet governance within the scope of its competence and we ask the secretary-general to inform the General Assembly of the UN and all those concerned in telecommunications on our progress in this field.”

    and she concludes:

    Non-governmental organisations have criticised the ITU for many years and the internet self-regulatory bodies looked at the ITU as interested in “taking over.” With the formal acknowledgement of private domain regulator ICANN, the IP-address allocating RIRs, the Internet Engineering Task Force and the World Wide Web Consortium – standardisation organisations for the internet protocol and the Web respectively – in its plenipotentiary documents, the ITU might be seen as giving up its claim as sole representative for future networks. But how much will the ITU give up?

     

  • joly 4:33 pm on 10/05/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Video: IGF Sessions on Core Internet Values #IGF 

    At the recent Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius two workshop sessions were held to discuss Core Internet Values.

    Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values – 16 September 2010

    Core Internet values and the principles of Internet Governance across generation – 17 September 2010

    “Core Values” were also suggested as a theme for the next IGF at a plenary session ‘Taking stock of internet governance and way forward‘ on September 17 2010

     

  • joly 6:48 am on 09/14/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Internet Governance Forum is underway #IGF 

    IGFThe Internet Governance Forum is underway in Vilnius , Lithuania

     

  • joly 5:40 am on 07/21/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    IGF-USA will take place July 21, 2010 #IGF 

    The second Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA) is taking place today July 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. The one-day event offers expert panels and workshops on important global Internet governance issues, as well as a plenary session on the continuation of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum.

    IGF USA is a multistakeholder effort to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions about the future of the Internet. It provides a domestic forum in the US to engage civil society, government, technologists, research scientists, industry and academia, helping to create partnerships, coalitions and dialogues that demonstrate best practices and help move policy forward.

    * Twitter:  @IGFUSA | #IGF

    * Webex (Password: igfusa2010)

    See below for latest program

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  • joly 3:52 pm on 03/29/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Briefing on future of IGF at United Nations NYC 3/30 

    The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has sent out an invite to a briefing on the Internet Government Forum (IGF) on March 30. In 2009 the General Assembly called on DESA to gather reports from various Internet -related organizations (including ISOC) and to consider the results, and also the future of the IGF. It is presumed at this meeting Sha Zukang, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, will report the conclusions, or at least give a status update. The invite notes that it is open to “not only to accredited entities to the World Summit on the Information Society, but also to “institutions and persons with demonstrated knowledge and experience in issues related to the Internet Governance Forum””

    What: DESA IGF briefing
    When: Tuesday Mar 30 2010 ; 15:00-18:00 EST
    Where: Conference Room 2 – Temporary North Lawn Building (TNLB) United Nations 1st Ave & 44th ST NYC
    Contact: 212 963 1234

     

  • joly 10:00 am on 12/08/2009 Permalink | Reply
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    IGF Workshop 319: Workshop on Fundamentals: Core Internet Values

    An audio recording of the core values workshop organized by Isoc India Chennai at IGF 2009 Sharm el Sheikh

    What is the Internet? What makes it what it is? What are its architectural principles? What are the core values? And what is happening to the core values in the process of its evolution? What is it that needs to be preserved and what changes are inevitable?

    ( detailed descriptions of this workshop is at the Internet Governance Forum website )

    The panel was chaired by Lynn St Amour, President of the Internet Society and inlcluded Daniel Dardailler, Patrick Falstrom, Ambassador Yrjo Lansipuro, Rt. Hon. Alun Michael, MP., Nathaniel James, Alejandro Pisanty, Ian Peter, Markus Kummer with apologies from Jonathan Zittrain, Issac Mao and Milton Mueller

    Janna Quitney Anderson of Elon School of Communications has written an article titled “Net’s 10 Commandments” proposed by Ian Peter during this workshop also summarizing the deliberations at this workshop by panelists on arstechnica

    via ISOC India Chennai Chapter: IGF Workshop 319: Workshop on Fundamentals: Core Internet Values.

     

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