[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: [governance] CNAS Commentary: "The Internet Yalta"

[Grigori Saghyan]

Very important warning, thanks for sharing
Grigori Saghyan
ISOC.AM

On 12.02.2013 20:46, Sivasubramanian M wrote:
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> This is from the Governance list.
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> The cnas article cited here is interesting because rightly or wrongly it
> finds the WCIT to be a conference of comparable significance to Yalta.
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> What is more interesting is the warning related to ambiguous definitions.
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> Comments?
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> Sivasubramanian M
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> From: "Philipp Mirtl" <Philipp.Mirtl at oiip.ac.at
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> Date: Feb 11, 2013 6:07 PM
> Subject: [governance] CNAS Commentary: "The Internet Yalta"
> To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org <mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>>
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> Dear list members,
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> For those who are interested, I forward you the link to a recently
> published commentary on WCIT-12: http://www.cnas.org/theinternetyalta.
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> The abstract reads as follows:
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> “The December 2012 meeting of the World Conference on International
> Telecommunications (WCIT) may be the digital equivalent of the February
> 1945 meeting of the Allied powers in Yalta: the beginning of a long
> Internet Cold War between authoritarian and liberal-democratic
> countries. The battles over Internet governance that surfaced at WCIT
> are not just about competing visions of the Internet, with one side
> favoring openness and the other security. They are also about two
> different visions of political power – one in which that power is
> increasingly distributed and includes non-state actors, and one in which
> state power is dominant. At the Yalta Conference, Western democracies
> made two fundamental mistakes: first, they allowed naive statements of
> wishful thinking to supplant actual realities on the ground. Second,
> they overlooked the risk inherent in permitting ambiguous definitions.
> Both of these mistakes may have been repeated at WCIT.”
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> Best regards,
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> Philipp Mirtl
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