[Chapter-delegates] Meeting on WCIT at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Colleagues,

this is a summary of a meeting that took place at the German Federal
Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) last Thursday 9/27
10:00-17:00.
I participated in the meeting on behalf of ISOC.DE.
Attendance:

~30 Participants representing the usual suspects as well as reps
of the environment like consumers, industry, computer manufacturers
(Intel, NEC ...), assistants to MoPs ...

Presentations:

Voss, Head of department for Technology policy (BMWi)
Welcome

Scholl, (ITU Secretariat)
presents ITU. How we work, why often misjudged, consensus based,
members ...

Schöppner, Deputy Head of department for Technology policy (BMWi)
on positions of BMWI on WCIT proposals. 10 selected topics. Positions
either in line with or not covered by ISOC C74. These positions
are according to BMWi in line with CEPT. Main rationals:
Don't change a running system
Don't extend ITR's scope or bindingness
Schöpner's presentation received quite some support during the
discussion.

Doll, (Deutsche Telekom)
presents ETNO C 109. Controversial discussions. I, referring to European
Chapters Position argued against the QoS part (a threat for net
neutrality) and the SPNP. (BMWi showed a lot of sympathy with the
ETNO paper which obviously was achieved in their previous talks
with Deutsche Telekom) Voss (BMWi) blocked further discussion
of Net Neutrality referring to a separate event on this topic.
Other carriers (Verizon, Vodaphone ...) support ETNO positions.
But they discussed whether they should become part of the ITRs.

Schwarz (Federal Network Agency)
(The Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications,
Post and Railway is a separate higher federal authority within the
scope of business of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology) brought forward a strong position of his agency against
ETNO C 109, covering most of concerns that are shared by ISOC.
Schwarz emphasized that this position was covered by the head of
the agency. This lead to a certain huff on side of the ministry.

That's it in short. One of the participants asked the ministry to
provide a WIKI to continue discussion and collect references.
Not much support for the idea from the ministry. So ISOC.DE
is considering to pick-up this idea and provide the technical
infrastructure for the discussion.

We also received a friendly coverage from a leading ICT publisher
(Heise):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Europa-sucht-gemeinsame-Position-zur-internationalen-Telecom-Regulierung-1720367.html


Schöne Grüße, Klaus
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