[council] Postcards from the EC

[William Drake <william.drake@xxxxxx>]

Hi

In the event anyone was puzzled by EC Commissioner de Graaf's pronouncement in 
Singapore that we were all engaged in "a discussion between the deaf and the 
stupid" and has not already seen this, thanks to Kieren we now know what 
hearing and smart looks like.  

http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/08/31/ec-greater-government-control

http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/9/4/4893009.html

http://www.circleid.com/posts/print/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis/

The Commission's six “informal background papers” envision a future in which 
the bylaws change to make GAC advice pretty much mandatory, there are various 
changes to the IANA contract including NTIA's proposal on 'consensus & public 
interest', and governments can easily kill new gTLDs, create a reference list 
of censored terms, and on and on...all to begin being discussed in Dakar.

BTW has there been any further consideration of the ideas floated in SF 
concerning Council/GAC interfacing etc?

Cheers,

Bill




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William J. Drake
International Fellow
Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
University of Zurich, Switzerland
william.drake@xxxxxx
www.mediachange.ch/people/william-j-drake
www.williamdrake.org
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