[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN addressing ITU plenary and a plenipot note

[Remmy Nweke]

Thanks for sharing

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 9:53 a.m. Dina Solveig Jalkanen, <
icann at thomascovenant.org> wrote:

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