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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Julf,<br>
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Thanks for citing the evolution of the OECD. Post WWII was a time
when the world listened to the lessons learned from the failures
of diplomacy after WWI. A whole raft of organizations, within the
UN and outside the UN, were created. Like the OECD many of those
have evolved and those that have not learned, and have not
evolved, are the ones in the most trouble and the ones we trust
least at the moment. <br>
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I will go out on a limb and say that the ITU, because of the
Internet, is an organization at risk. Unless one believes in the
unlikely position that it will go away, our broader stakeholder
challenge is to work within our national contexts to help it
evolve in productive ways that are consistent with the global
public interest. This is better than just struggling to prevent it
from subverting an open and free Internet ecosystem, or staking
claims on parts of the ICANN remit. I will go further and suggest
that ICANN could both tend to good policy within its DNS remit,
and become a recognized contributor to wider Internet ecosystem
policy ideas. <br>
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Sam L., <br>
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On 7/3/2016 3:48 PM, Johan Helsingius wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">"One possible lesson learned from the almost 100 years of the ILO is that
ICANN, as a self-interested stakeholder, should participate in that
wider multistakeholder discussion, assist with research, and play a role
in global recommendations around Internet ecosystem policy norms
(standards) that will be considered and ratified within countries and
within multilateral agreements."
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That sounds very much like the OECD that has evolved from an
organization designed to administer the Marshall Plan to
becoming a recognized policy forum mostly based on benchmarking
best practice.
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<font color="#660000"><i>Julf</i></font>
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