[Chapter-delegates] ISOC joins panel discussing future of global Internet regulation
Bill Graham
graham at isoc.org
Thu Aug 14 07:16:43 PDT 2008
Sure, Alejandro, happy to. By the way, Anne has kindly mounted the
presentation on the Chapters site -- and I now know how to do it
myself ;-)
Most of this will be covered in the newsletter in greater detail, but
in general I would say my takeaways were as follows:
-- Audience: US based lawyers are not surprisingly interested in
things that might affect their practices, largely by offering them new
lines of work. Their interest was therefore largely to do with things
that could end up in a court: fraud, phishing, privacy, and protection
of intellectual property rights. Their questions focused on those
items, as well as wondering what if any new kinds of judicial or quasi-
judicial bodies could emerge (such as the Council of Europe convention
on cybercrime, that has an increasing number of non-European
signatories -- see <>).
-- Markus Kummer (IGF Secretariat): nothing new here, but Markus
believes IGF is setting new benchmarks for multistakeholder engagement
in what would previously have been inter-governmental discussions. I
think he is right, which is one reason I think we in ISOC need to stay
engaged with IGF directly, but also with civil society and other
groups in the Internet community. Chapters will play an increasingly
important role in this as IGF-model meetings are now expanding at the
regional, national, and sub-national levels.
-- Paul Twomey (ICANN CEO): concentrated on the introduction of new
gTLDs, as a development of obvious interest for the legal community.
Beyond that, his comments focused on the recent ICANN consultation on
increasing institutional confidence, based on the President's Strategy
Committee report, and ICANN's preparations for the end of the joint
project agreement with the US government. He also responded to
questions about the security weekness in the DNS revealed last week,
and the importance of DNSSEC.
-- Dick Beaird (US Department of State): restated the United States
government position on Internet governance, and said that the 30 July
statement from Meredith Baker did not in any change the long standing
positions growing out of the original green and white papers of 1998.
He also talked about the ever-expanding importance of the Internet
economy, and walked through the outcomes of the OECD Ministerial
meeting in Seoul last June. You will recall that ISOC served the
Internet technical community by coordinating 17 organizations in
preparation of our memorandum to the ministers and of the preparation
of the 1-day Internet technical community forum.
So -- any new forces? Not really, but I believe the Bar Association
will be a more prominent participant in future IGF meetings, and we
can expect to see them offering fact-based workshops. I would not say
there is anything else that could be seen as reshaping the debate, but
then an annual conference would not normally be a place for that to
happen. I believe, however, that it is important for ISOC to take up
invitations to events like this. We reached a new audience with our
long-established positions, created awareness of our activities and
the visibility of ISOC as a player and partner in the Internet
governance universe. And, as you will see in the presentation, it
provides an opportunity to educate a new audience about the importance
of the open, collaborative Internet model, while drawing attention to
our major strategic initiatives. There was definite interest in the
Trust and Identity MSI, as well as the others. I hope it may attract
new org members from the legal community as well.
Best regards
Bill
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Bill Graham
Global Strategic Engagement
The Internet Society
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On 13-Aug-08, at 9:02 PM, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
> Bill,
>
> and, could you tell us in brief narrative what the event was like?
> Are new forces visible that could reshape the debate, is there any
> sign of upcoming progress, regression, or stalling?
>
> I know the question may be too naive or the answer too candid for
> public use ;-). But also I'm sure that many of our chapters could
> use even a very politically correct statement.
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
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>
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>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Bill Graham wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:01:17 -0400
>> From: Bill Graham <graham at isoc.org>
>> To: WWWhatsup <joly at punkcast.com>
>> Cc: "<chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] ISOC joins panel discussing future
>> of global
>> Internet regulation
>> Just FYI -- I will get a copy of the presentation on the Chapters
>> site
>> as soon as I can educate myself as to how it works! I've also
>> prepared a story for this month's newsletter.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On 13-Aug-08, at 2:47 PM, WWWhatsup wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm sorry. This escaped my notice. I would've gone and
>>> videotaped had I known.
>>>
>>> joly
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Can you post the presentations / proceedings of this meeting on the
>>>> internet for us all to read ?
>>>>
>>>> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>>>> India Chennai
>>>>
>>>>> The event "The Internet - How It is Governed Today and How it
>>>>> May Be
>>>>> Governed Tomorrow: A VIP Panel Discusses the Internet Governance
>>>>> Forum of
>>>>> the United Nations and the Global Debate About the Control and
>>>>> Future of the
>>>>> Internet" will be held by the American Bar Association (ABA) in
>>>>> New York
>>>>> City on Saturday 9 August 2008.
>>>>>
>>>
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>>>
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