[ga] Re: [Ecommerce] Singapore chair'd session

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie and all,

It seems odd to me as an american, that the US would be backing
the ISOC so strongly when that organization did away with individual
membership within it's own organization.  Seems so anti-American
to me anyway...

Just a thought...



James Love wrote:

> The Chapeau for para 76.....
>
> The Singapore Chair is pushing  LIKE CRAZY for ISOC to be the
> secretariat for the Internet Governance Forum.  No discussion yet of
> the obvious conflict of interest, which is the millions of dollars
> that ISOC gets from its control of .org, which it gets from ICANN.  I
> asked to speak, but was told by the Chair that civil society cannot
> speak in this meeting.
>
> Australia, US, Singapore, push ISOC big time here.  US, wants to use
> ISOC, as a representative of many stockholders, lots of expertise
> that not available from the UN.
>
> China asks that ISOC not be specifically identified.  Uganda asks
> that ISOC not specifically be identified.   Brazil asked that ISOC
> not specifically be identified.    They all make the same point.
> Lots of groups have technical expertise.  Why single out ISOC?
>
> Well, the original chapeau gets trashed, and this is what is left
>
> 76.    We ask the Secretary General of the United Nations, in an open
> and inclusive process, to establish, by the second quarter of 2006, a
> new forum for multi-stake-holder policy dialogue  - called the
> Internet Governance Forum (IGF)  --[initially for a period of five
> years] with a mandate to:
>
> ....
>
> 8:23 Tunis time.
>
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