[Chapter-delegates] End of ITU plenipotentiary in Guadalajara

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Cher Olivier,

thanks for this pointer to the ITU's news release.

The conference hasn't ended yet. In a couple of hours there will still be 
a Plenary and rounds of objections and reservations to the approved 
documents.

The official acts at 
http://www.itu.int/plenipotentiary/2010/pd/final-acts/001S.pdf are not 
open (only for members, with TIES number.) I am asking the ITU management 
publicly to make the fine gesture of opening them; it remains in process 
as I write.

We all owe great thanks to Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) from APNIC, 
Luis Miguel Martinez of Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (@lmuia, 
@electronicaUIA, @UIAdigital), Veni Markovski (@veni), Kieren McCarthy 
(formerly of ICANN, now GIBC, @kierenmccarthy and @GBIC), Pablo Hinojosa 
(APNIC, formerly ICANN, @lphinojosa) and a few others 
for their tireless, smart, well-tuned labor of twittering out from the 
conference live, sometimes blow-by-blow in what seemed pure madness. You 
can pick it up through the hashtag #PP10, and statistics for it in 
http://wthashtag/pp10.

Bill Graham's very good weekly reports will provide many of you with 
context, more complete information, and analysis, while the lively Twitter 
stream has served to make thousands of people worldwide immediately aware 
of the workings of the ITU and the troubles that even the most basic 
Internet concepts face in being understood.

Whether the result of the Plenipotentiary is good or bad for the Internet 
will only be known after some time. What seems pretty sure for me is that 
the openness and transparency that the Internet brought (some times by 
force) to the ITU meeting have been effective in averting some of the 
worst results. Just one little sign of this is a speech of Secretary 
General Hamadoun Toure asking the Delegates to be aware that the meeting 
is being broadcast and they run the risk of making the world laugh at the 
ITU.

We will have to analyze the entire experience with Bill soon to understand 
what went well, what went wrong, and how to fine-tune our strategies 
towards the future.

For me it has been a motive of pride to try to contribute to this effort 
but mostly to see these great Internet souls bringing in light and fresh 
air to the one organization with a claim of a role in Internet Governance 
that remains most removed from compliance with the core WSIS mandates.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:08:34 +0200
> From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] End of ITU plenipotentiary in Guadalajara
> 
> The press release is on:
>
> http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2010/41.aspx
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> -- 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
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