[At-Large] [Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[Sivasubramanian M]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro
<yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> All,
>
> There are governments that like and  defend the multistakeholder approach
>  and those who rather would do without it. As far as I understand, the
> outcome of CSTD meeting resulted from a temporary majority of the latter.




> Many of the representatives of the  former were unfortunately absent, no
> doubt partly because the meeting had been arranged at a short notice.
> Yrjö
>

Dear Yrjo,

Is there a possibility that those who were absent would challenge (or by any
process seek to reverse) this extraordinary decision?



>
> > Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:37:15 +0530
> > From: isolatedn at gmail.com
> > To: zaid at sfbayisoc.org
> > CC: mcnerney at isoc.org; chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org;
> at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> > Subject: Re: [At-Large] [Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet
>      Governance Forum
> >
> > Reposting what I posted in the Governance list here:
> >
> > Is there a possibility that a few powerful Governments instructed their
> CSTD
> > representatives to cause this sudden shift in thinking across the CSTD
> and
> > move away from mutli-stakeholder Governance model to an unilateral
> > Governance model whereby Governments take the seats leaving Civil Society
> > out there on the street to hold placards that are ignored? Such
> instructions
> > could be part of the abrupt reactions on the wake of the Wiki-Leaks
> issue.
> >
> > Perhaps the Governments want to take total and complete charge of the
> > Internet, to be in a position to wield totalitarian control over what is
> and
> > what is not on the Internet.
> >
> > Sivasubramanian M
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Sivasubramanian M <
> isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have signed with this comment (not verbatim)
> > >>
> > >> Internet evolved largely by community participation and it works
> because
> > >> of its participative and user centric model. A multi-stakeholder
> approach
> > >> suits Internet Governance for this reason. The idea of reversing this
> > >> approach to an unilateral approach amounts to reversing progress.
> > >>
> > >
> > > and posted Jon McNerney's message with the joint statement in the blog
> > > http://isocmadras.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Sivasubramanian M
> > >>
> > >> http://www.isocmadras.com
> > >> facebook: http://is.gd/x8Sh
> > >> LinkedIn: http://is.gd/x8U6
> > >> Twitter: http://is.gd/x8Vz
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid at sfbayisoc.org>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Signed and supported on behalf of San Francisco Bay area chapter.
> > >>>
> > >>> Zaid
> > >>>
> > >>> Sent from my iPhone
> > >>>
> > >>> On Dec 10, 2010, at 3:22 AM, Jon McNerney <mcnerney at isoc.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Dear Colleagues,
> > >>> >
> > >>> > In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December the United Nation's
> > >>> Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) decided
> to
> > >>> create a Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance
> Forum
> > >>> (IGF) (http://www.intgovforum.org/) with a membership made up only
> of
> > >>> governments.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > We believe this decision sets back the model of multistakeholder
> > >>> cooperation under which the IGF was established, and contradicts the
> > >>> instructions given to the CSTD for the establishment of the Working
> Group
> > >>> >
> > >>> > The Internet Society has joined the International Chamber of
> Commerce -
> > >>> Business Action to Support the Information Society, the Internet
> Governance
> > >>> Caucus, and many other Internet, business, and civil society
> organizations
> > >>> in sending a letter to the CSTD, asking them to retract their
> previous
> > >>> decision and to establish an appropriately constituted Working Group
> that
> > >>> ensures the full and active participation of governments, the private
> sector
> > >>> and civil society from both developing and developed countries,
> involving
> > >>> relevant intergovernmental and international organizations and
> forums.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Like the Internet, a multistakeholder approach has been at the core
> of
> > >>> the Internet Governance Forum's formation and success. We hope that
> Internet
> > >>> Society Chapters and Members, as well as other organizations, will
> join us
> > >>> in signing the letter.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > You may read the full letter, and see the growing list of
> signatories,
> > >>> and indicated your own support here:
> > >>> >
> > >>> > http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2710
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Sincerely,
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Jon McNerney
> > >>> > Chief Operating Officer
> > >>> > Internet Society
> > >>> > www.isoc.org
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