[Chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC comments on WGIG report

[Michael R Nelson]

Attached is a draft of ISOC comments on the new report of the UN Working
Group on Internet Government (WGIG).

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.
In addition, it contains criticiques of specific parts of the report.

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.

The most important (and likely the most controversial) sections of the
draft are:

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)

2)  The first portion of the section on "How to Read the WGIG Report" on
page 4.

3)  A call for reform of UN agencies (especially the ITU) in the last
paragraph of page 6.

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.

5)  A statement of ISOC's priorities for WSIS at the bottom of page 10 and
the top of page 11.

If you have comments regarding this draft, please e-mail them to me, Lynn
St. Amour, and Miriam Kuehne (mnelson at isoc.org, st.amour at isoc.org,
kuehne at isoc.org)
Please send any comments you have by Thursday night, August 11.

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

(See attached file: ISOC comments on WGIG report V3a.doc)

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Michael R. Nelson
Director, Internet Technology and Strategy
IBM Corporation
1301 K St., N.W., Suite 1200
Washington, DC  20005
202-515-5137
cell 703-598-5187
mrn at us.ibm.com
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