[EURO-Discuss] Studienkreis

Wed Sep 25 19:14:50 UTC 2013

Dear Roberto,
thank you very much for this summary and the updates, read them with much
interest!
I understand the event was indeed interesting and captivating, and if Fadi
changed his plans and stayed for one more day - that shows once again the
importance of the issues addressed during it!

With very best,
Veronica

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Roberto Gaetano <
roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I made the mistake of not taking notes while the meeting was going on, so
> there are details that I do not remember, please feel free to add/correct
> what is needed.
>
>
>
> This year, the format has been slightly different. With the exception of
> the
> first session, there have been no formal presentations, but rather short
> introductions by “resource persons” followed by wider discussion and Q/A
> among all participants.
>
> Fadi Chehadé was supposed to attend only part of the first day, but changed
> his plans and remained for the second day as well, indicating that he was
> extremely satisfied about the discussion and the contribution by the
> participants. He also answered specific questions about the ICANN plans.
>
>
>
> The first session was about the status of the Internet in Italy. Antonio
> Amendola (Senior Advisor to Deputy Minister for Economic Development)
> presented the apologies of the Deputy Minister, Antonio Catricalà, who has
> been unable to attend. Several personalities (see the attached programme)
> have presented different aspects of the Internet in Italy. I am not aware
> if
> the slides of the presentations are available for distribution.
>
> Now the coordination on Internet matters is ensured by the Ministry of
> Economic Development, while in the past different ministries like for
> instance the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Ministry of Industry
> had
> partial responsibility on it.
>
> The engagement of the Italian government on the digital agenda has been
> stressed by several participants. Fadi has reported about his meeting with
> the Deputy Minister Catricalà in Rome the day before, in which the
> potentially important role that Italy can play in the Internet governance
> matters has been discussed.
>
> This session has been closed by the presentation of the .IT by the Director
> of the Institute of Informatics and Telematics, an institute depending from
> the Italian top research institution, the CNR (National Council of
> Research).
>
>
>
> The second part of the afternoon was opened by Fadi, with a description of
> the challenges that ICANN is facing and the way he plans to address them.
> The key point that he has addressed is ICANN’s “equal multi-stakeholder
> model”, that has to guarantee that all stakeholder have not only “a voice”,
> but “equal voice” in the process.
>
> Then a session on Internet Governance was planned. However, due to the wide
> impact that the Snowden case had on all participants, the discussion has
> focused almost only on privacy vs. security issues. My personal impression
> is that the vast majority of the participants were critical about the
> principle of limiting the privacy and controlling the data exchanged on the
> Internet even if this could address security issues like, for instance,
> detecting potentially illegal activities. But, as I said, this is just my
> personal opinion having listened to the contributions.
>
> One key point of the discussion has been the role of the different
> stakeholders in shaping the legislation and keeping a tight control to
> ensure that rights are preserved. Fadi commented that this is another
> example of the need for a multi-stakeholder model.
>
>
>
> The first session of the second day addressed the issue of the introduction
> of new TLDs. The different “resource persons” brought the perspective of
> their stakeholder community: Registries, Registrars, Governments, IP,
> Business. Although I was there representing PIR, I realized that there were
> no other “resource persons” speaking for the user community, so I raised
> also the issue of the scarce information available to registrants, that are
> by and large unaware of the impact of the new TLDs.
>
> The impact has been debated at length during the whole morning. It has been
> recognized that there will be a big change in the marketplace, not only
> because of the number of new TLDs, but also because the vertical
> integration
> blurs the distinction between registries and registrars. This will require
> a
> rethinking of the GNSO structure. The GNSO Review was planned for this year
> but is likely to be postponed until we can appreciate better the impact of
> the new TLDs in the Internet community and in the multi-stakeholder model.
>
> Fadi commented that he changed the organizational structure of ICANN to
> address the complexity of this problem. To a specific question, he answered
> that he is confident to be able to announce in Buenos Aires that the first
> TLDs are operational.
>
>
>
> David Maher had the difficult task of bringing the meeting back to order
> after lunch. In his keynote speech he addressed some legal issues related
> to
> the development of the Internet in 2013. I hope that the text of his
> presentation could be available.
>
>
>
> The last part of the meeting saw some changes in the agenda, combining the
> discussion on ATRT2 with the future development in Internet networks. This
> is the part of the meeting that I remember least, but if I am not mistaken
> there has been a discussion about accountability in terms of “accountable
> to
> whom”, quoting again the point made the previous day about ICANN’s
> legitimacy coming from the consensus of the stakeholders, and therefore the
> ultimate accountability has to be to the stakeholders.
>
>
>
> Next time I promise I will take notes!!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roberto
>
>
>
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