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<p><font size="2">Attached is a draft of ISOC comments on the new report of the UN Working Group on Internet Government (WGIG).</font><br>
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<font size="2">The draft combines large portions of the statements that Lynn St. Amour and Brian Carpenter made at the last public meeting of the WGIG in June.</font><br>
<font size="2">In addition, it contains criticiques of specific parts of the report.</font><br>
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<font size="2">Several parts of the draft reflect discussions during last weekend's meetings of the ISOC Advisory Committee and the ISOC Board in Paris. I have also included data from the recent members' survey regarding the WGIG report. Thank you to all of you who provided your input and advice. </font><br>
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<font size="2">The most important (and likely the most controversial) sections of the draft are:</font><br>
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<font size="2">1) The last paragraph of the Executive Summary on the first page, which calls for more focus on technological solutions (and less focus on ICANN, DNS, IP addresses)</font><br>
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<font size="2">2) The first portion of the section on "How to Read the WGIG Report" on page 4.</font><br>
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<font size="2">3) A call for reform of UN agencies (especially the ITU) in the last paragraph of page 6.</font><br>
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<font size="2">4) A clear statement of opposition to the idea of a single general-purpose forum linked to the UN to discuss Internet issues (and a criticism of the UN ICT Task Force, the GBDE, and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission) on page 8.</font><br>
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<font size="2">5) A statement of ISOC's priorities for WSIS at the bottom of page 10 and the top of page 11.</font><br>
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If you have comments regarding this draft, please e-mail them to me, Lynn St. Amour, and Miriam Kuehne (mnelson@isoc.org, st.amour@isoc.org, kuehne@isoc.org)<br>
Please send any comments you have by Thursday night, August 11. <br>
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We aim to finish work on these comments by Friday, August 12, since they must be submitted to the WSIS Secretariat by Monday, August 15<br>
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<i>(See attached file: ISOC comments on WGIG report V3a.doc)</i><br>
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Michael R. Nelson<br>
Director, Internet Technology and Strategy<br>
IBM Corporation<br>
1301 K St., N.W., Suite 1200<br>
Washington, DC 20005<br>
202-515-5137 <br>
cell 703-598-5187<br>
mrn@us.ibm.com<br>
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