<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Nicola is raising an important point. I am wondering what the motivation is why ITU is now interested in internet policy. They should rather contribute to the enhancement of the multi-stakeholder process instead of seeking new roles in the development of core internet resources. <br><br></div>How is ITU going to do this, considering the fact that almost all their meetings that i no off are top-down approach, very selective process of who should attend their meetings. The same business men and women who are on the ITU board are the same guys going to run the process unless other wise.<br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>WISDOM DONKOR<br></div><div>Sosftware / Network Engineer<br></div>Web/Open Government Platform Portal Specialist<br><div><div>National Information Technology Agency (NITA) <br></div><div>Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana</div><div>Tel; +233 20 812881</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom_dk@hotmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom_dk@hotmail.com</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh" target="_blank">wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Skype: wisdom_dk</div><div>facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk<br></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.nita.gov.gh" target="_blank">www.nita.gov.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.data.gov.gh" target="_blank">www.data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.isoc.gh" target="_blank">www.isoc.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.itag.org.gh" target="_blank">www.itag.org.gh</a> <br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Nicolas Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickolas.adam@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickolas.adam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 23/10/2014 3:09 AM, William Drake
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<pre>On Oct 22, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Enrique Chaparro <a href="mailto:echaparro@VIALIBRE.ORG.AR" target="_blank"><echaparro@VIALIBRE.ORG.AR></a> wrote:
Thanks, Bill, for keeping us in the loop and all others for their
contributions.
While I agree on Avri's characterization of NCSG, i.e., that
NCSG does not need to be a (whatever)state-sanctioned body
to have a role and its own word on Internet-related policies,
I have several strong objections to the wording of the document
and would _not_support NCSG endorsing it.
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<pre>The NCSG PC (on which I do not have a vote) presumably would make a decision if able based on the thrust of member inputs and its own assessment. Re: the former, it’d be helpful to know to what bits of text you have strong objections and why….
Thanks,
Bill</pre>
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From the text:<strong><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><strong>"ITU role in internet governance</strong>.
The ITU should work with other actors to contribute to furthering
multistakeholder internet governance, rather than attempting to
take on new responsibilities for the development of international
internet public policy. The ITU should not seek a role in the
development of policies on core Internet resources such as domain
name and addresses. <i>The ITU should continue to focus on ever
more important core issues such as access, infrastructure and
related capacity building. </i>(<i>My emphasis</i>)"<br>
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and<br>
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"<strong>Capacity-building</strong>. The ITU should enhance the
provision of capacity-building support to developing countries
through ITU-D, ITU-T and ITU-R, in their respective roles and
through collaboration, whilst also ensuring that these efforts are
coordinated with those of standard-setting and other bodies that
do similar or associated work."<br>
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Made me want to say that the last time the ITU (ITRs) tried to
meddle with access (and indirectly, in its own [faulty]
justification, with infrastructure and capacity building) I wasn't
impress (see <a href="http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-04/itrs.html" target="_blank">http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-04/itrs.html</a> for a
great introduction to parts of what was going on). <br>
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I was gonna say that I'm not eager to have our name next to a "yeah,
why don't you guys ― an international treaty org, mind you, with
great democratic lacunas and many more possibilities for
undemocratically enforcing bad schemes ― focus less on our turf and
more on ... say ... access and IP interconnection termination
billing scheme ... and stuff .... "<br>
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But then I read more:<br>
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"International interconnection and net neutrality</strong>. The
ITU should not attempt to address access and infrastructure issues
in developing countries through policy and regulatory changes to
global peering and interconnection, but encourage IXPs,
infrastructure build-out, local content development and enabling
environments that promote investment and competition." (...) <br>
<p>(...) We share the concerns expressed by many Member States
about infrastructure investment and buildout around the world —
particularly in developing countries. The high cost of
international connectivity is being dealt with through a range
of measures, including competition, enabling environments and
investment, increased traffic demand and reduced costs, Internet
Exchange Points and local and regional traffic exchange,
increased access to undersea cables, work in ITU SG 3, and work
in ITU-D to incentivize Internet investment in previously
underserved and unserved parts of the world.</p>
<p>Evolution of interconnection for IP traffic and IP enabled
services remains an unsettled issue with no broadly accepted set
of standards to govern international settlement. Currently,
individual countries have the authority to regulate IP
interconnection rates as needed, and this remains the optimal
approach in such a dynamic and evolving market.</p>
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And my reservations were mostly put to bed. In the time I took this
morning to make up my mind, I do not see why we shouldn't sign this.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Nicolas<br>
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