US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty

[Rudi Rusdiah]

Dear all:
Why now big democratics nation avoid to sign international treaty...

This happened not only with Internet treaty...but also Climate Change 
Treaty (Kyoto Protocol) and UNCLOS (UN  Convention on Law of the Sea) 
until now are not signed by US, but signed by majority of the countries 
participated in the summit ?

Its a pity and sad... even in WTO since Cancun... it always 
deadlock...luckily in WSIS Tunis 2005 all countries could signed and 
agreed on the Internet Governance (Tunis commitment)... so we can 
continue with the IGF forums and many other post WSIS meeting.. hope no 
more deadlock in the future....?

Regards, Rudi Rusdiah - APWKomitel - Association of Community Internet 
Center (Indonesia)

On 12/15/2012 12:55 AM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Dec 14, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> As a advisor on the US delegation, I must add that this is very much to their credit.  They really really wanted to be able to sign the treaty and it is only because they stood on principle about defending the Internet especially from control of content.  They worked hard, harder than I even imagined the government could work to get a treaty they could sign.
> +1  I too was very impressed with del in many respects, and couldn't help wishing to see the same kind of thing in ICANN.
>
> And of course, many other dels were on the right side of the issues as well…
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>> As someone who is generally not very supportive of governments I am very impressed by this effort.
>>
>> I got to see the sausage made, and I am so glad at least 30 countries, it seems, will avoid it.  But the story is not over and will continue next year in the World Telecommunity Policy Forum (WTPF), where Internet Governance is the subject.
> WTPF in Geneva 13-16 May http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Pages/default.aspx will directly address ICANN-related issues from an intergovernmental/ministry of comm/national telco standpoint. It will be important that IG-oriented civil society follows this process and participates on whatever terms ITU allows (TBD—SG Toure on down have not responded to questions about it, but I suspect it'll be opened to some kind of public participation).
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> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
>