[Chapter-delegates] Nations and Networks tonight - UN Webcast right now! - Sign the ISOC IGF petition!

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Joly,

I join Bob in thanking you for setting up the webcast from the UN 
consultation on IGF. I was able to watch it for a while and produce a 
tweetcast (see @apisanty on Twitter; also the great Sam Dickinson, already 
famous for her tweetcast from the ITU Plenipot, @sgdickinson, 
@kierenmccarthy and his company @GIBC have text and insightful comment.)

This session was far above interesting. It is unequivocal that the UN 
under-secretary Sha Zukang (who emerged from the ECOSOC and CSTD 
environment) is pushing the evolution of the IGF and enhanced cooperation 
in a direction dear to China and others (including somewhat surprisingly 
Brazil) - with a far more heavyweight governmental intervention.

Sha has painted himself, and the whole UN system, as inimical to the 
development of the Internet as we push it - open, basically.

Another trend to watch is the reappearance of the "change" mantra. I find 
it very dangerous. What it does is to depict the ensemble of the IETF, 
ICANN, and ISOC as "the establishment" and the regressive initiatives as 
"change".

That is hard to fight. We must continue to innovate, to expand the 
Internet and improve its workings, and to be ever more inclusive, in order 
to retain the high ground.

I think that this session has illustrated very well that the Internet, and 
the community that builds it every day, are indeed against some powerful 
enemies, and that we must do what it takes to avoid the great lot of bad 
ideas and actors coming our way. ISOC members and chapters are of course 
key players on this side.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Bob Hinden wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:12:56 -0800
> From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at gmail.com>
> To: Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com>
> Cc: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Nations and Networks tonight - UN Webcast
>     	right now! - Sign the ISOC IGF petition!
> 
> Joly,
>
> Thanks for setting this up.  I watched some of it.  Interesting.....
>
> Bob
>
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
>> As you hopefully are aware ISOC-NY will host Milton Mueller discussing
>> Nations and States tonight
>> http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1592
>>
>> In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December the United Nation’s
>> Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) decided to
>> create a Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance
>> Forum (IGF) (http://www.intgovforum.org/) with a membership made up
>> only of governments.
>> The Internet Society has written a letter opposing this move, and
>> appealed for others to add their support.
>> http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1637
>>
>>
>> Right now, as I type, a consultation is underway at the UN on this
>> important topic - watch the webcast!
>> http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1637&cpage=1#comment-3362
>>
>> Please, if you can, watch. If not watch the webcast of our event this
>> evening, where these issues are sure to be addressed.
>>
>> --
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>>   VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org
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