.....If Internet organizations expect the ITU - an institution that has been resolving complex global problems for more than 100 years - to recognize a new reality; then they must look in the mirror and do the same.
The dirty truth is that for all its out-of-date processes and government-only nature, the ITU towers over all the organizations that devise Internet policies in terms of professionalism, quality, process, and consideration of stakeholders' views....
WCIT: What's happened in the first week Kieren provides a good overview of the first week at WCIT.
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AliceFrom: .Nxt <info@dot-nxt.com>Sender: ".Nxt" <info=dot-nxt.com@mail61.us1.mcsv.net>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 08:12:50 +0000To: Alice<alice@apc.org>ReplyTo: .Nxt <info@dot-nxt.com>Subject: WCIT: What's happened in the first week
Halfway through WCIT...
A rundown of the World Conference on International Telecommunications's first week
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) has dramatically split and may grind to a halt until a key distinction over whom precisely the resulting international treaty apply to is decided.
WCIT splits over the issue of "operating agencies"
Conference can't move forward until it's agreed who the treaty actually applies to
Your guide to WCIT documentation
Over 200 documents and thousands of pages. Here's how to make sense of it all
Every proposal for change, broken down by article and sub-article
A simple guide to the conference next month
How to follow events live at WCIT
It's a closed conference. But not if you follow this guide.
WCIT lowdown: it's all about Africa and Committee 5
Our rough and ready guide to how the conference will pan out, who and what to watch, and a look at the bigger plans and strategies afoot.
The dirty truth about WCIT
The campaign waged against the conference has already achieved most of its goals, making ongoing accusations made against the ITU look increasingly hysterical. But how would the Internet organizations that claim to be under threat manage under the same level of scrutiny?
Dubai, 3-14 December
Verisign loses dot-com piggybank
US government intervenes in contract renewal, raising questions about ICANN stewardship
The current wholesale price for dot-coms stands at $7.85 and the company had already agreed a six-year extension on its right to exclusively sell the domains with DNS overseeing organization ICANN. That agreement mirrored one signed in 2006 that allowed Verisign to raise the price by seven percent in four of the six years the contract ran.
However the contract was subject to approval by the US Department of Commerce and it decided to remove the price-rise clause before signing. A short statement issued by the DoC quoted Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling saying that "consumer will benefit from Verisign's removal of the automatic price increase".
WCIT and the Internet? It all comes down to this document
The lowdown on Russia's contribution 27.
Contribution 27 appears to confirm everything that people have been worrying about - an effort to use a revision of an international treaty agreed in 1988 to provide governments with additional controls over the functioning of the Internet.
So here is a rundown of what is exactly in Contribution 27 - both the original and revised versions - and an analysis of what the implications of its adoption would be.
ITU backs away from IP address provision
Efforts to make the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) into a supra-regional Internet registry have been ditched, at least for the time being. Attendees at the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) were surprised with a last-minute proposal, aggressively pushed by the Arab States, that the ITU become a provider of IP addresses. Discussion within Committee 4 had been focused on the allocation of IP addresses and in particular the provision of IPv6 address blocks.
Our predictions for WCIT
Foolish as it may be, we have some predictions for what will happen between now and the end of WCIT. Here they are:.
- Nothing radical will appear in the ITRs. Instead it will be agreed that they will be reviewed in four or eight years' time and a range of working groups will be formed to work on various issues and report to the Council next year, take it to the ITU Plenipotentiary for initial review in 2014, and onto the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) in 2016
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Day 2: Put off to tomorrow what you can't do today
After a busy start, WCIT started to settle down into a familiar mode on the second day of the conference. The main highlights were:.
- A bid by Canada and the US to get some key definitions agreed before work starts was pushed off until the end of the week
- The meeting delegates all agreed that they agreed with freedom of expression and human rights but that they didn't want to write it into a telecoms treaty - a press release was produced instead...
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