[Chapter-delegates] ISOC joins panel discussing future of global Internet regulation

Thu Aug 14 07:43:55 PDT 2008

Sorry -- neglected to add a couple of links.  See below

On 14-Aug-08, at 10:16 AM, Bill Graham wrote:

> 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 ;-)
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> Most of this will be covered in the newsletter in greater detail, but
> in general I would say my takeaways were as follows:
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> -- 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 <http://tinyurl.com/68582p>

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>
> -- 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.

see <http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-06aug08-en.htm>

>
>
> -- 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
> ========================
> Bill Graham
> Global Strategic Engagement
> The Internet Society
> graham at isoc.org
> tel +1.613.231.8543 or
>  +1.703.439.2157
>
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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
>>
>>
>> .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  .  .  .
>>    Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
>> UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
>>
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>> *Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
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>> *Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614
>>
>> ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org
>> Participa en ICANN, http://www.icann.org
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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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