[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Statement on the NETmundial Initiative

[Carlos Raúl G.]

Thank you Raúl

We hope to keep contributing positively to the process.



Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
+506 8335 2487
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> El nov 19, 2014, a las 6:14 PM, Raul Echeberria <echeberria at isoc.org> escribió:
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>> El 19/11/2014, a las 14:59, Carlos Raúl G. <crg at isoc-cr.org> escribió:
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>> 1- YES
>> 2- YES 
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> Dear Carlos Raúl et al. 
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> I don’t want to express my personal opinions on this issue, because the most important now is to know the opinion of ISOC community, as stated by the Board of Trustees. However i can provide some facts with regards to the Netmundial discussion last april on this regard. 
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> As you maybe remember, I had the opportunity to serve as co-Chair of the Netmundial Executive committee together with Demi Getschko. 
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> In the comments submitted by ICANN to the first draft produced by the Executive Committee the following paragraph was proposed:
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> "Mechanisms for Orphan and Emerging Issues: There is a need for mechanisms to consider emerging topics and issues that are not currently being adequately addressed by existing Internet Governance arrangements and usually referred as orphan and emerging issues.”
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> This was not of course the first time there have been proposals for creating such new things. 
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> That concept was not included because: 
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> 1) There was discussion both in the Executive committee and during the Netmundial meeting itself. There was not consensus on this issue because there was not consensus on the existence of the “orphan issues”. Some people (i can’t say how many) questioned the existence of orphan issues. 
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> The expression in fact was included at some point in the paragraphs related to IGF and was removed later.  
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> 2) There are no references in the Netmundial outcome, despite that it was proposed (like the example mentioned above), to the need of new mechanisms, but yes to the need of strengthening and continue evolving the IGF. 
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> Best, 
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> Raúl 
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>> 3- regional traffic Infraestructure and local market conditions for access 
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>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>> +506 8335 2487
>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
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>> El nov 19, 2014, a las 12:57 PM, Livingood, Jason <Jason_Livingood at cable.comcast.com> escribió:
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>>> On 11/19/14, 9:58 AM, "Sivasubramanian M" <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> @Raul  It is not well understood that this is NOT our final position, and a bit of negative publicity has resulted and a few other actors have used this announcement to campaign against NETmundial.
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>>> It is not about NETmundial, it is about the newly proposed NETmundial Initiative, something quite different. 
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>>> I regret that you feel it put us in a negative position but we strongly disagreed with the entire top-down concept of oversight of the group. 
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>>> Some questions I have:
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>>> 1 – Do you agree that the IANA transition is a very important priority for us to continue to focus on?
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>>> 2 – Are there major “Internet governance” issues that cannot be addressed by existing groups – OR are being insufficiently addressed by existing groups?
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>>> 3 – If so, what are those issues?
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>>> Thanks!
>>> Jason
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