[ga] WSIS workshop announcement

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PATHS FOR THE FUTURE
An overview of discussions from the WSIS

October 29th, 2003 (Wednesday)
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Carthage Palace Hotel
Room Carthage 4

During the preparatory meetings for the United Nations' World Summit on the
Information Society, some governments have started to call for more
traditional, inter-governmental ways to administer the Internet, especially
targeting on the international management of root servers, Domain Name
system, and IP Address assignment. They claim that while "technical matters"
can be managed by the private sector, ie ICANN, the "public policy issues"
should be handled by inter-governmental organizations, suggesting ITU.

Is the principle of private-public partnership under discussion again?  Can
it really match the challenges of the global Internet and resist to
pressures?

The At Large Advisory Committee will organize an informational session about
what is happening in Geneva and what is going to happen after Geneva to
Tunisia in 2005. So ICANN is to persuade governments that they can handle
the public policy matters in open and transparent manner - but how? Perhaps
the At Large, through a more substantial role for the individual users than
the one in the current framework, could help to reach this objective.

After a report about the discussions and controversies that have
characterized the last WSIS Preparatory meetings in July in Paris and
September in Geneva, panelists from different constituencies will discuss
what they think is right and what is wrong about the different Internet
governance models that are on the table, and how the gap between the
different views could be bridged.
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