<div dir="auto">Dear all, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am travelling to Berlin and can't participate in today's call.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto">Oksana</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 03:24 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com">ocl@gih.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  

    
  
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    Dear colleagues,<br>
    <br>
    an action item from our January EURALO call was:<br>
    <br>
    <a class="m_-5226719907398736028confluence-userlink m_-5226719907398736028user-mention m_-5226719907398736028current-user-mention m_-5226719907398736028userlink-2" href="https://community.icann.org/display/~olivier.crepin-leblond" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Olivier Crepin-Leblond</a> to forward
    Jean Jacques Subrenat's summary of Macron's speech at the IGF to the
    EURALO mailing list.<br>
    <br>
    With apologies for having dropped this and not forwarded it earlier,
    please be so kind to find Jean-Jacques' summary in the forwarded
    message below. This is to be discussed further, with regards to the
    EURALO Hot Topics.<br>
    Kindest regards,<br>
    <br>
    Olivier<br>
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            <td>Re: Action Item on EURALO monthly call December 2018</td>
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            <td>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:14:49 +0100</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Jean-Jacques Subrenat <a class="m_-5226719907398736028moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jjs@dyalog.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><jjs@dyalog.net></a></td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap align="RIGHT">To: </th>
            <td>Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <a class="m_-5226719907398736028moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><ocl@gih.com></a></td>
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            <td>silvia Vivanco <a class="m_-5226719907398736028moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:silvia.vivanco@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><silvia.vivanco@icann.org></a></td>
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      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Dear Olivier,</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Dear Silvia,</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
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      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">here’s a brief
        résumé about President Macron’s speech at the IGF-2018 in Paris.
        If you wish, I could present the topic orally in the second half
        of our conference call later today, because a discussion would
        be warranted.</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">If E. Macron’s
        speech gave rise to some concerns, these were heard mainly on
        the side of large corporations, say in the USA, who reacted to
        the use of the R word, largely banished from their vocabulary.
        For some, Regulation is the beginning of Communism. From the
        standpoint of the global Internet user, I would point out the
        following features:</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- Threats to
        the Internet and its users:</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  -
        Structural: the single, unique Internet is under the risk of
        breaking up into national segments or continental ‘’plates’'</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - Cybercrime
        is a direct threat to physical security of the Internet, and to
        the continued availability of public services.</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- The global
        Internet now needs ‘’decisive, but lucid action’’ in order to
        preserve or protect</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - ideals,
        values</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - net
        neutrality</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- It is a
        falsehood to describe net neutrality as leading to the end of
        free thought. One must distinguish between neutrality and
        universality.</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- In light of
        the above, it is time for us all to ‘’build a new space'', with</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - ‘’an open
        and safe Internet’'</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - with
        adequate respect for ideals and values</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- In order to
        preserve the Internet and global users against these dangers, it
        has become necessary to set up some degree or regulation:</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - because
        governments espouse different values: some democratic, others
        far less so</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - France was
        the first signatory of the ‘’Contract to Save the Internet’’
        initiated by Tim Berners-Lee, with a view to protecting
        democracy</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - It has
        become necessary to reach beyond the misleading alternative of
        ‘’complete self-regulation, or deregulation’’, and ‘’a segmented
        Internet controlled by authoritarian states’'</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  - Therefore,
        E. Macron is calling for a ‘’cooperative regulation’’, in the
        spirit of the growing movement towards sharing commons</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- France,
        following Switzerland, will contribute to the implementation of
        such a ‘’cooperative regulatory’’ movement, as of 2019, on 3
        main issues:</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  1) Protect
        private data (enhance protection through some regulatory
        mechanism), along the EU model</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  2) Ensure
        and enhance trust, stability and security in cyberspace; France
        supports the ‘’Paris Appeal for Trust and Security in
        Cyberspace’'</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">  3) Preserve
        potential for creativity, invention and economic development</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- In mid-2019,
        France will invite to Paris an international ‘’scientific
        council'’ on AI</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
      </div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">- Conclusion,
        a quote from the late Kofi Annan: ‘’To cope with Internet in our
        lives, we need to be at least as creative as those who invented
        it.’’</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
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      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">(All the above
        passage were translated into English by yours truly)</div>
      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br>
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      <div id="m_-5226719907398736028bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Link to the
        original as published: <a href="https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2018/11/13/discours-du-president-de-la-republique-emmanuel-macron-lors-du-forum-sur-la-gouvernance-de-linternet-a-lunesco" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2018/11/13/discours-du-president-de-la-republique-emmanuel-macron-lors-du-forum-sur-la-gouvernance-de-linternet-a-lunesco</a> </div>
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