[Chapter-delegates] India Proposes Government controlled Internet

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Alex, you may be right on the "usual suspects" :)

--c.a.

On 10/28/2011 12:18 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the IBSA proposal was torn into almost vaporous shreds in the IGF plenary in Nairobi that discussed it.
> 
> However, some of us predicted that the proponents, after taking the heat, would go back home and tell their superiors, "the opposition we got was from the usual suspects, which shows that we are right; let's go on, damn the torpedoes, full speeed ahead" - and that seems to have become true now.
> 
> It is unlikely that this proposal for a new body will goo too far (though nothing is impossible.) Some governments and people will prefer to address this proposal over the more scary one of other countries about a voluntary agreement on cybersecurity, thus glorifying it.
> 
> So, again, maybe not much will come out of the proposal, but it fouls the environment, and is one more thing to track. If it gains traction we must be out there to kindly explain its flaws.
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty
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> Desde: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Sivasubramanian M [isolatedn at gmail.com]
> Enviado el: viernes, 28 de octubre de 2011 00:20
> Hasta: Chapter Delegates
> Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] India Proposes Government controlled Internet
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> Hello,
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> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/10/27/india-proposes-government-control-internet
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> This is from Kieren MacCarthy's article:
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> "In a statement<http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/10/27/un-ga-india-cirp-proposal> sent yesterday, India argued for the creation of a new body to be called the United Nations Committee for Internet-Related Policies (CIRP) which would develop Internet policies, oversee all Internet standards bodies and policy organizations, negotiate Internet-related treaties, and act as an arbitrator in Internet-related disputes.
> The CIRP would exist under the United Nations, comprise of 50 Member States, be funded by the United Nations, run by staff from the UN’s Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) arm, and report directly to the UN General Assembly."
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> #  And the Government spokesperson argued that this “should not be viewed as an attempt by governments to ‘take over’ or ‘regulate and circumscribe’ the Internet.” !!
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> #  The IBSA proposal was badly criticized by the Civil Society in the lists and at the Nairobi Internet Governance Forum, it appeared that India wasn't the prime contributor to that imaginative proposal, but those of us who believed that India couldn't have proposed or fully endorsed the first IBSA proposal --- we were wrong.
> 
> Sivasubramanian M
> ISOC India Chennai
> http://isocindiachennai.org<http://isocindiachennai.org/>
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