<div dir="auto">Thanks for sharing</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 9:53 a.m. Dina Solveig Jalkanen, <<a href="mailto:icann@thomascovenant.org">icann@thomascovenant.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
for your information - International Telecommunication Union (ITU)<br>
Plenipotentiary Conference is meeting for the 20th time in Dubai during<br>
during these three weeks. The conference is the top policy-making body<br>
of the ITU deciding on directions of the next 4 years.<br>
<br>
Starting promisingly with telegraph and radio, ITU has evolved to also<br>
include a large amount of governmental powerplay and for that reason is<br>
essential event to be aware of, though discouraging in overwhelming<br>
preference for strong regulation but not without positive highlights,<br>
e.g. in the sense of consideration for end user and open source systems<br>
by some African nations.<br>
<br>
Yesterday Göran Marby addressed ITU plenipot plenary requesting<br>
consideration for end user within policy making, mentioning<br>
multistakeholder model and offering assistance of ICANN technical<br>
experts on site to any interested government delegations. Given this is<br>
the first plenary address by ICANN, I think it made excellent points in<br>
a very constructive way.<br>
<br>
I hope participating in ITU will further positive dialogue among ICANN<br>
and governments on a high policy level, or at the very least awareness<br>
of major country agendas. At the moment one world, one Internet mission<br>
is strongly incompatible with regulation goals of many.<br>
<br>
Interesting links:<br>
<br>
ITU Plenipotentiary Conference brings more than 2500 ICT decision-makers<br>
together from around the world:<br>
<a href="https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/2018-PR33.aspx" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/2018-PR33.aspx</a><br>
>From ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zha:<br>
<a href="https://news.itu.int/how-itu-is-changing-with-the-world-of-technology-houlin-zhao/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.itu.int/how-itu-is-changing-with-the-world-of-technology-houlin-zhao/</a><br>
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Documents: <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/proposals/PP18#" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/net4/proposals/PP18#</a><br>
<br>
Seeing governmental policy work, negotiation and fairly aggressive<br>
lobbying highlights the importance of keeping the non-commercial<br>
<br>
work going as a united front. I have done a bit of ICANN outreach and as<br>
I see it, dialogue with governments at high level events should offer<br>
something (ready example of policy draft, implementation links, things<br>
to remember) and be patient and respectful. I will not be submitting a<br>
meeting report to NCUC but I hope present ISOC members will share theirs.<br>
<br>
Solidarity,<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
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