Category — IGF

Under an agreement reached at WSIS in Tunis, there will be a new multi-stakeholder forum next year in Athens, called the Internet Governance Forum. The document is here in Adobe Acrobat.http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.pdf

The domain names InternetGovernanceForum.com and InternetGovernanceForum.org were registered yesterday and are for sale on Sedo.com.

This week the world will be watching Tunisia during the World Summit on the Information Society. InfoToday.com has a summaryof what’s at stake.

An aggregate of blog postings on WSIS is available here:www.wsisblogs.org

Interview with EU Commissioner Viviane Reding in Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,384561,00.html

“So where are we up to with this internet governance thing?” – The Register

Once again, read the paper from the Internet Governance Projecthere.

The Internet Governance Project (http://www.internetgovernance.org) has released another paper in advance of the World Summit on the Information Society. This paper is a must read. Download it in pdf here: http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/Political-Oversight.pdf

“WSIS seems to be foundering on the issue of ‘political oversight’ of the Internet. IGP issues a new paper that clarifies the issues and provides concrete proposals for moving forward. We explain why WSIS must separate discussion of the role of governments in setting policy for all Internet issues from discussion of the narrower problem of ICANN’s oversight. By means of a careful analysis of the contractual instruments used by the U.S. government to supervise ICANN, the paper shows how the problem of U.S. unilateral oversight can be addressed in a way that is both politically feasible and avoids threatening the stability or freedom of the Internet.”