What is wrong with ISOC?
Cannot it be this body, we are looking for?
Cheers
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:36, vinton g. cerf wrote:
There have been fairly intense discussions in a series of meetings called "PrepComs" as in "preparatory committees" leading up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) taking place December 10-12 in Geneva. In the most recent meetings, a "government only" rule was invoked that excluded interested parties such as ICANN, among others, but the texts have been made visible. Of course, it remains to be seen whether these texts will be adopted by the summit meeting representatives. The texts cover principles and action plans, respectively, for "realization" of the Information Society. The subject of "Internet Governance" has been a large focus of attention, as has been a proposal for creating an international fund to promote the creation of information infrastructure in the developing world. Internet Governance is a very broad topic including law enforcement, intellectual property protection, consumer protection, tax policies, and so on. It also happens to include some of the things that ICANN is responsible for. Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with "governance"). ICANN's mandate is very limited and it would be helpful if the broad governance issues mentioned above could find other organizational homes. ICANN's work could be fitted into a larger framework but some people seem to think that if ICANN doesn't do all the things that might fall into "Internet governance" then ICANN sho uld be replaced with, eg, an ! ITU or UN body.
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