[Chapter-delegates] Weekly European Regional Bureau Newsletter: EU Overview

[Richard Hill]

I disagree. Please see the comment that I just posted in reply to Milton's blog.

Best,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halbersztadt Jozef (jothal) [mailto:jozef.halbersztadt at gmail.com]
> Sent: lundi, 28. avril 2014 17:02
> To: Borka Jerman Blazic
> Cc: Richard Hill; Delegates Chapter; European Chapters; Chris Harris
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Weekly European Regional Bureau
> Newsletter: EU Overview
> 
> 
> In my opinion the change is substantial. Non-state actors gained a
> lot. Governments, the private sectors, academia, technical community,
> civil society, in theory, since NetMundial are at equal footing. It
> means loss of influence for governments and the private sector.
> 
> Milton Miller writes about the upgrade:
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/04/27/netmundial-moves-net-
> governance-beyond-wsis/
> 
> Best
> -- 
> 'JotHal' jozef [dot] halbersztadt [at] gmail [dot] com
> Internet Society Poland http://www.isoc.org.pl
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 April 2014 16:30,  <borka at e5.ijs.si> wrote:
> > +1!
> >
> > Richard is right.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Borka
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Richard Hill wrote:
> >
> >> The Newletter says "Most of the participants in the high level 
> NETmundial:
> >> the Global Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet 
> Governance
> >> that took place in Sao Paolo, Brazil on 23-24 April agreed 
> that Internet
> >> management should remain a self-regulated space free of governmental
> >> implication."
> >>
> >> I don't see anything in the NETmundial outcome that justifies the
> >> statement
> >> "self-regulated space free of governmental implication".
> >>
> >> On the contrary, NETmundial reaffirmed that offline rights and 
> laws apply
> >> online. The NETmundial outcome contains numerous specific references to
> >> human rights (international law) and to the law.  Laws are 
> made by states
> >> and enforced by governments, so references to law recognize the role of
> >> governments.
> >>
> >> And the NETmundial outcome document explicitly recognizes the role of
> >> governments, because it states:
> >>
> >> "Internet governance should be built on democratic, multistakeholder
> >> processes, ensuring the meaningful and accountable participation of all
> >> stakeholders, including governments, the private sector, civil society,
> >> the
> >> technical community, the academic community and users. The respective
> >> roles
> >> and responsibilities of stakeholders should be interpreted in 
> a flexible
> >> manner with reference to the issue under discussion."
> >>
> >> Democracy in this context must be understood as the right for 
> everyone to
> >> take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly or through freely
> >> chosen representatives (paraphrasing Article 21 of the Universal
> >> Declaration
> >> of Human Rights and Article 25 of the International Covenant 
> on Civil and
> >> Political Rights).
> >>
> >> The NETmundial outcome also states: "Governments have primary, 
> legal and
> >> political accountability for the protection of human rights."
> >>
> >> And the objective of the NETmundial roadmap is "to outline 
> possible steps
> >> forward in the process of continuously improving the existing Internet
> >> governance framework ensuring the full involvement of all 
> stakeholders in
> >> their respective roles and responsibilities."
> >>
> >> The expression "respective roles and responsibilities" is clearly a
> >> reference to paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the statement in the Weekly Newsletter was referring 
> to management
> >> of the Internet domain names and addresses, and not to 
> Internet governance
> >> in general.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Chapter-delegates
> >>> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org]On Behalf 
> Of Frédéric
> >>> Donck
> >>> Sent: lundi, 28. avril 2014 10:53
> >>> To: Delegates Chapter
> >>> Cc: European Chapters; Chris Harris
> >>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Weekly European Regional Bureau 
> Newsletter:
> >>> EU Overview
> >>>
> >>>
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