[Chapter-delegates] Report from ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, week 1

[Christopher Wilkinson]

Dear Franck:

I think we know each other well enough for you not to be miffed that  
on this occasion we disagree a little bit.

I consider that this is an excellent and well worthwhile use of Senior  
ISOC Staff resources, and of the ISOC budget. We need that.
I think Bill and colleagues will have their work cut out to keep up  
with the whole of the ITU PP10 during the next two weeks.
We look forward to their further reports.

On the substance, there is clearly a good deal of education and  
clarification still needed in ITU on matters such as OSI and 'NGN'
Also, if I may be allowed to quote a posting from our friend and  
critic, William Drake, recently on the Governance List:

<< It's a pity there are no CS (Civil Society) organizations prepared  
to test the (ITU) secretariat's frequent declarations of openness to  
CS participation and actually apply to be sector members in ITU-T or  
ITU-D;
the only related entity participating is ISOC, which has made many  
good interventions against heavy intergovernmentalism but has not  
sought to be a vehicle for wider member/community/CS engagement etc.>>

Perhaps faint praise, but praise nonetheless.

Regards to you all,

CW




On 10 Oct 2010, at 04:14, Franck Martin wrote:

> Nice report Bill.
>
> I'm wondering how much of all of this is hot air (as jon Levine said  
> on the ALAC list)? I mean, there is lot of agitation when ITU make a  
> speech, or countries try to regain control, but then US/EU bock and  
> also many countries cannot reach agreement. Meanwhile, the Internet  
> moves on, and they play catch up all the time.
>
> It is important to be at ITU meetings, but I'm not sure it is the  
> best use of ISOC scarce resources to worry too much about the ITU.
>
> As I like to point always, look at www.itu.int/spam (last update was  
> 2006-10-09) then on cyber-security then on DNS and IP...
>
> ITU is not relevant anymore, unfortunately no one wants to say the  
> king is naked.
>
> Let's stop to fight negative proposals and focus on positive  
> proposals. Let's regain the initiative.
>
> Franck Martin
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>
> Check your domain reputation: http://gurl.im/b69d4o
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Graham" <graham at isoc.org>
> To: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Cc: "Executive Team" <exec-team at elists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 9 October, 2010 3:58:43 PM
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Report from ITU Plenipotentiary  
> Conference,	week 1
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have been attending the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference this week,  
> along with a few others from the Internet community.  The attached  
> brief report was prepared jointly by Cathy Handley of ARIN and I to  
> give you the key developments of the week.  It is extremely busy  
> here, but we will continue to work together and with others as they  
> join us to send out reports through the remaining 2 weeks.  I will  
> also find a way to post these to the ISOC web site, which will be  
> easier for all of us, plus will not spam those of you who don't want  
> to receive further reports.
>
> best regards,
>
> Bill
>
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