http://wcitleaks.org/ Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.orgAs you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.”So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents.The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.”At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this post urging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote: Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately. Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand.Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word. //Cynthia M. WongDirector, Global Internet Freedom Project Center for Democracy & Technology CDT • 1634 I Street NW • Suite 1100 • Washington, DC 20006E cynthia@cdt.org P +1-202-407-8835 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting FREE +1-202-407-8835end_of_the_skype_highlighting F +1-202-637-0968 Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative & Free!Follow our work on Twitter @CenDemTech @cynthiamw
Grace Thanks for sharing. The very fact that 'nobody' knows what these documents/proposals contain smack of duplicity and a 'whiff of corruption'. I'm perfectly willing (in fact will be glad and sigh with relief) if I'm proven wrong. Does someone at CCK who may have a password to the ITU protected section of the site share with us? Anyone who served in GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee) at ICANN may have access to these documents? We must not forget that the very nature of the Internet and Telecommunications today (it's freedom or the illusion of it) is what has fostered the incredible innovation and transparency in both private and governmental circles. Ali Hussein +254 773/713 601113 Sent from my iPhone® On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.org
As you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents. The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.” At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this post urging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote: Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately. Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand. Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word.
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Dear Ali and all, While we request for documents to be made available I would first urge listers to read what is publicly available, for example the ITR's etc. My assumption is that once what is available is understood then we would know what documents we want to have access to. Best Alice -----Original Message----- From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> Sender: "kictanet" <kictanet-bounces+alice=apc.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke>Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 04:28:38 To: <alice@apc.org> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/alice%40apc.org The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
Alice Thanks. That's duly noted. Whilst we do that we must continue to agitate for transparency in the process. For more information on ITRs see attached PowerPoint and links;- http://www.itu.int/oth/T3F01000001 http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/3F/01/T3F010000010001PDFE.pdf http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/itr/ http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stratpol/ITRs/itrs_past.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T#International_Telecommunication_Regulatio... What should definitely raise our attention is this little bit of information from wikipedia - *' At the December, 2012, World Conference on International Telecommunications,[24]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T#cite_note-23>ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamadoun_Tour%C3%A9> will convene member-state delegations in Dubai <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai> to renegotiate the ITR treaty. "The sprawling document, which governs telephone, television, and radio networks, may be extended to cover the Internet, raising questions about who should control it, and how", assessed one journalist looking forward to the conference earlier that year.**[25**]' * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T#cite_note-24> Listers, if I sound like a bull-dog with a bone in its jaw please forgive me. I'm just more convinced than ever that the current status quo of Internet Governance and Freedom (albeit with more inclusiveness of the people of the world and less US Government 'control') needs to be preserved after the events of last night at Pivot East Awards held at Ole Sereni Hotel. For those of us who may have missed this event Pivot East is an event in which developers of mobile applications pitch or “sell” their ideas to groups of venture capitalists and industry players. The best Pitch gets rewarded by a cash prize that can be used as “seed” money to start or develop the business idea. The overall winner of this event was a gaming app called Ma3Racer. Simply put the game takes our chaotic matatu industry and general state of driving in the country and puts it into perspective in a very engaging mobile game. What is amazing about this game is that not only is it very local in content (I'm sure Daktari Ndemo is smiling.. :-) ) but it has to-date been downloaded 800,000 times in over 200 countries as far as Mongolia!! Now imagine if some misinformed functionary decided or decides that this kind of content is not kosher and decides to pull down the site/app? During yesterday's World IPv6 day at the iHub I was duly impressed by Dr.Ndemo's key note address about the necessity to retain the freedom of expression and communication (read the internet) while at the same time protect ourselves from the minority elements who are hellbent on abusing these freedoms. This kind of balanced approach I am hoping is what we all want and what we all should be fighting for otherwise I can assure you there will be no ma3racers, cellulants, pesapals, Seven Seas, Virtual Cities, iHubs, mlabs and other labs to be proud of. Can we be proactive about this? May I suggest ISOC takes this discussion to the next level with an open hour or two at ihub? Is this possible Barrack? As a member of ISOC, Kenya Chapter I offer my services however you can use them. Thank you all for listening/reading through my rumblings...:-) Ali Hussein On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, <alice@apc.org> wrote:
Dear Ali and all, While we request for documents to be made available I would first urge listers to read what is publicly available, for example the ITR's etc. My assumption is that once what is available is understood then we would know what documents we want to have access to.
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Ali, Walu, Kivuva et al I, Barrack and KENIC are finalizing on the themes for this year's Kenya IGF whose proposed date is Friday July 6th and will be posting to the list later this afternoon on suggested topics for discussion and tentative program. The ITRs is number one on our agenda. We still have a chance to influence the government's position before the Dubai meeting in December. As usual we will commence with online discussion sometime next week and then have a F2F meeting on July 6th. Ali, this will be a very good opportunity for you and all others to make concrete suggestions. Thanks for the links and more coming later today. RgdsGG Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:10:04 +0300 From: ali@hussein.me.ke Subject: Re: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke; kictanet-bounces+alice=apc.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com Alice Thanks. That's duly noted. Whilst we do that we must continue to agitate for transparency in the process. For more information on ITRs see attached PowerPoint and links;- http://www.itu.int/oth/T3F01000001 http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/3F/01/T3F010000010001PDFE.pdf http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/itr/ http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stratpol/ITRs/itrs_past.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T#International_Telecommunication_Regulatio... What should definitely raise our attention is this little bit of information from wikipedia - ' At the December, 2012, World Conference on International Telecommunications,[24] ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré will convene member-state delegations in Dubai to renegotiate the ITR treaty. "The sprawling document, which governs telephone, television, and radio networks, may be extended to cover the Internet, raising questions about who should control it, and how", assessed one journalist looking forward to the conference earlier that year.[25]' Listers, if I sound like a bull-dog with a bone in its jaw please forgive me. I'm just more convinced than ever that the current status quo of Internet Governance and Freedom (albeit with more inclusiveness of the people of the world and less US Government 'control') needs to be preserved after the events of last night at Pivot East Awards held at Ole Sereni Hotel. For those of us who may have missed this event Pivot East is an event in which developers of mobile applications pitch or “sell” their ideas to groups of venture capitalists and industry players. The best Pitch gets rewarded by a cash prize that can be used as “seed” money to start or develop the business idea. The overall winner of this event was a gaming app called Ma3Racer. Simply put the game takes our chaotic matatu industry and general state of driving in the country and puts it into perspective in a very engaging mobile game. What is amazing about this game is that not only is it very local in content (I'm sure Daktari Ndemo is smiling.. :-) ) but it has to-date been downloaded 800,000 times in over 200 countries as far as Mongolia!! Now imagine if some misinformed functionary decided or decides that this kind of content is not kosher and decides to pull down the site/app? During yesterday's World IPv6 day at the iHub I was duly impressed by Dr.Ndemo's key note address about the necessity to retain the freedom of expression and communication (read the internet) while at the same time protect ourselves from the minority elements who are hellbent on abusing these freedoms. This kind of balanced approach I am hoping is what we all want and what we all should be fighting for otherwise I can assure you there will be no ma3racers, cellulants, pesapals, Seven Seas, Virtual Cities, iHubs, mlabs and other labs to be proud of. Can we be proactive about this? May I suggest ISOC takes this discussion to the next level with an open hour or two at ihub? Is this possible Barrack? As a member of ISOC, Kenya Chapter I offer my services however you can use them. Thank you all for listening/reading through my rumblings...:-) Ali Hussein On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, <alice@apc.org> wrote: Dear Ali and all, While we request for documents to be made available I would first urge listers to read what is publicly available, for example the ITR's etc. My assumption is that once what is available is understood then we would know what documents we want to have access to. 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Thank you Grace, we are looking forward to it, regards On 7 June 2012 10:46, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
Ali, Walu, Kivuva et al
I, Barrack and KENIC are finalizing on the themes for this year's Kenya IGF whose proposed date is Friday July 6th and will be posting to the list later this afternoon on suggested topics for discussion and tentative program. The ITRs is number one on our agenda. We still have a chance to influence the government's position before the Dubai meeting in December. As usual we will commence with online discussion sometime next week and then have a F2F meeting on July 6th.
Ali, this will be a very good opportunity for you and all others to make concrete suggestions. Thanks for the links and more coming later today.
Rgds GG
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What ? GG, at this rate, we are likely going to see how Kenya has been voting all along on this matters! If this was from Nollywood(Nigerian movie) soon to be replaced by our very own Riverwood (Nairobi River Road) I would say "the plot thickens" . walu. --- On Thu, 6/7/12, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:48 AM http://wcitleaks.org/ Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.orgAs you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents. The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.” At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this post urging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote: Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately. Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand. Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word. //Cynthia M. WongDirector, Global Internet Freedom Project Center for Democracy & Technology CDT • 1634 I Street NW • Suite 1100 • Washington, DC 20006E cynthia@cdt.org P +1-202-407-8835 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting FREE +1-202-407-8835end_of_the_skype_highlighting F +1-202-637-0968 Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative & Free! Follow our work on Twitter @CenDemTech @cynthiamw -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
Well, the issue of Internet governance is a hot topic involving hard diplomacy. US has put fifth gear in its propaganda machinery. We all know that the Internet is Governed from Washington, with president Bush in his reign vetoing many proposals from ICANN. We all know how powerful this behemoth ICANN is, and that it reports to USA Department of Commerce. The revenue these California firms get from gTLDs an other payouts is huge, so don't expect them to relinquish control over the internet without a fight. We all know anybody who controls root servers, the domain names, IP numbers, and AS numbers, control a huge chunk of the internet. They can even refuse to propagate a zone file for a particular ccTLD. US still has the majority primary root servers. Are we forgetting SOPA? Is there anybody who never heard of wikileaks.org? The US put pressure on registrars to drop it like hot coal. Julian Assange had to seek refuge on ccTLDs and mirror sites to broadcast his message. So if we are talking about internet freedom, "the land of the free" is the true jail for our beloved internet. Bottom line, is it better for the life of the internet to be controlled from Washington (read one country), or for it to be controlled by UN? Of course UN is still not the most neutral place, with US bankrolling it. On 7 June 2012 09:28, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
What ?
GG,
at this rate, we are likely going to see how Kenya has been voting all along on this matters!
If this was from Nollywood(Nigerian movie) soon to be replaced by our very own Riverwood (Nairobi River Road) I would say "the plot thickens" .
walu. --- On *Thu, 6/7/12, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>* wrote:
From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:48 AM
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.orgAs you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents. The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.” At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this posturging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote:
Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately.
Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand. Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word.
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@Kivuva, I tend to see it that way too. As a global community, we have to chose whether we want the Internet to governed from Washington or NYC (UN-aka-ITU). Either way, Uncle Sam will somehow retain veto power. I remember reading somewhere that one Congress man said that he cannot understand how - assuming Internet Governance goes the United Nations way - he could NOT understand how the US would have the same vote/powers as say Somalia, Afghanistan and others (e.g Kenya?) whose society may not be as intricately tied to the Internet as thiers is.. What is worse, the motive of some countries to control the Internet is quite suspect - recall an earlier post I made about Google not "working" from Guangzhou, China? I suspect most African governments are coming in from this perspective and use ITU to sanitize such agenda with the correct diplomatic legalese. ITU plays along since they would not mind a redifned role (control internet) in the current dispensation of a knowledge economy. But that's just my personal view and I do hope am wrong. walu. --- On Thu, 6/7/12, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote: From: Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 10:17 AM Well, the issue of Internet governance is a hot topic involving hard diplomacy. US has put fifth gear in its propaganda machinery. We all know that the Internet is Governed from Washington, with president Bush in his reign vetoing many proposals from ICANN. We all know how powerful this behemoth ICANN is, and that it reports to USA Department of Commerce. The revenue these California firms get from gTLDs an other payouts is huge, so don't expect them to relinquish control over the internet without a fight. We all know anybody who controls root servers, the domain names, IP numbers, and AS numbers, control a huge chunk of the internet. They can even refuse to propagate a zone file for a particular ccTLD. US still has the majority primary root servers. Are we forgetting SOPA? Is there anybody who never heard of wikileaks.org? The US put pressure on registrars to drop it like hot coal. Julian Assange had to seek refuge on ccTLDs and mirror sites to broadcast his message. So if we are talking about internet freedom, "the land of the free" is the true jail for our beloved internet. Bottom line, is it better for the life of the internet to be controlled from Washington (read one country), or for it to be controlled by UN? Of course UN is still not the most neutral place, with US bankrolling it. On 7 June 2012 09:28, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: What ? GG, at this rate, we are likely going to see how Kenya has been voting all along on this matters! If this was from Nollywood(Nigerian movie) soon to be replaced by our very own Riverwood (Nairobi River Road) I would say "the plot thickens" . walu. --- On Thu, 6/7/12, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:48 AM http://wcitleaks.org/ Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.orgAs you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents. The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.” At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this post urging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote: Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately. Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand. Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word. //Cynthia M. WongDirector, Global Internet Freedom Project Center for Democracy & Technology CDT • 1634 I Street NW • Suite 1100 • Washington, DC 20006E cynthia@cdt.org P +1-202-407-8835 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting FREE +1-202-407-8835end_of_the_skype_highlighting F +1-202-637-0968 Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative & Free! 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Thank You Walubengo for your observations. You are not wrong at all. Time for being duped is over, but I doubt if we have any muscle. Regards. On 7 June 2012 11:10, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
@Kivuva,
I tend to see it that way too. As a global community, we have to chose whether we want the Internet to governed from Washington or NYC (UN-aka-ITU).
Either way, Uncle Sam will somehow retain veto power. I remember reading somewhere that one Congress man said that he cannot understand how - assuming Internet Governance goes the United Nations way - he could NOT understand how the US would have the same vote/powers as say Somalia, Afghanistan and others (e.g Kenya?) whose society may not be as intricately tied to the Internet as thiers is..
What is worse, the motive of some countries to control the Internet is quite suspect - recall an earlier post I made about Google not "working" from Guangzhou, China? I suspect most African governments are coming in from this perspective and use ITU to sanitize such agenda with the correct diplomatic legalese. ITU plays along since they would not mind a redifned role (control internet) in the current dispensation of a knowledge economy.
But that's just my personal view and I do hope am wrong.
walu.
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From: Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched
To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 10:17 AM
Well, the issue of Internet governance is a hot topic involving hard diplomacy. US has put fifth gear in its propaganda machinery. We all know that the Internet is Governed from Washington, with president Bush in his reign vetoing many proposals from ICANN. We all know how powerful this behemoth ICANN is, and that it reports to USA Department of Commerce.
The revenue these California firms get from gTLDs an other payouts is huge, so don't expect them to relinquish control over the internet without a fight.
We all know anybody who controls root servers, the domain names, IP numbers, and AS numbers, control a huge chunk of the internet. They can even refuse to propagate a zone file for a particular ccTLD. US still has the majority primary root servers.
Are we forgetting SOPA?
Is there anybody who never heard of wikileaks.org? The US put pressure on registrars to drop it like hot coal. Julian Assange had to seek refuge on ccTLDs and mirror sites to broadcast his message. So if we are talking about internet freedom, "the land of the free" is the true jail for our beloved internet.
Bottom line, is it better for the life of the internet to be controlled from Washington (read one country), or for it to be controlled by UN? Of course UN is still not the most neutral place, with US bankrolling it.
On 7 June 2012 09:28, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
What ?
GG,
at this rate, we are likely going to see how Kenya has been voting all along on this matters!
If this was from Nollywood(Nigerian movie) soon to be replaced by our very own Riverwood (Nairobi River Road) I would say "the plot thickens" .
walu. --- On *Thu, 6/7/12, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>* wrote:
From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:48 AM
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.orgAs you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents. The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.” At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this posturging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote:
Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately.
Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand. Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word.
// Cynthia M. Wong Director, Global Internet Freedom Project Center for Democracy & Technology
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Kivuva and all This is the kind of discourse that is healthy and of course there are many divergent views. At the end of it all a consensus is reached and of course not everyone will be happy with the outcome. The reason why we MUST engage is that even though the old adage 'Who pays the piper calls the tune' still holds true, Wahenga pia walisema 'Mcheza kwao hutuzwa' (the one who plays at home is rewarded...literally). In this case what I mean is that Kenya has a lot of Gravitas when it comes to things Internet, mobile and all..Thanks to Mpesa, iHub, mlab etc. I suspect we have a lot of Soft Power that we haven't even started flexing... Our very own Alice Munyua led or still leads the African IGF (Alice, hope I'm correct..). Whatever our differences I'm sure we can arrive at a consensus and probably provide leadership for Africa.. Just a thought. Is there a case for a 'Non-Aligned' Movement when it comes to this issue? That may be something that we could explore... Grace, Barrack, KeNIC thank you for looking at this and hosting the IGF in July. I sure am looking forward to it. Ali Hussein +254 773/713 601113 Sent from my iPhone® On Jun 7, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
Thank You Walubengo for your observations.
You are not wrong at all. Time for being duped is over, but I doubt if we have any muscle.
Regards.
On 7 June 2012 11:10, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: @Kivuva,
I tend to see it that way too. As a global community, we have to chose whether we want the Internet to governed from Washington or NYC (UN-aka-ITU).
Either way, Uncle Sam will somehow retain veto power. I remember reading somewhere that one Congress man said that he cannot understand how - assuming Internet Governance goes the United Nations way - he could NOT understand how the US would have the same vote/powers as say Somalia, Afghanistan and others (e.g Kenya?) whose society may not be as intricately tied to the Internet as thiers is..
What is worse, the motive of some countries to control the Internet is quite suspect - recall an earlier post I made about Google not "working" from Guangzhou, China? I suspect most African governments are coming in from this perspective and use ITU to sanitize such agenda with the correct diplomatic legalese. ITU plays along since they would not mind a redifned role (control internet) in the current dispensation of a knowledge economy.
But that's just my personal view and I do hope am wrong.
walu.
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From: Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched
To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 10:17 AM
Well, the issue of Internet governance is a hot topic involving hard diplomacy. US has put fifth gear in its propaganda machinery. We all know that the Internet is Governed from Washington, with president Bush in his reign vetoing many proposals from ICANN. We all know how powerful this behemoth ICANN is, and that it reports to USA Department of Commerce.
The revenue these California firms get from gTLDs an other payouts is huge, so don't expect them to relinquish control over the internet without a fight.
We all know anybody who controls root servers, the domain names, IP numbers, and AS numbers, control a huge chunk of the internet. They can even refuse to propagate a zone file for a particular ccTLD. US still has the majority primary root servers.
Are we forgetting SOPA?
Is there anybody who never heard of wikileaks.org? The US put pressure on registrars to drop it like hot coal. Julian Assange had to seek refuge on ccTLDs and mirror sites to broadcast his message. So if we are talking about internet freedom, "the land of the free" is the true jail for our beloved internet.
Bottom line, is it better for the life of the internet to be controlled from Washington (read one country), or for it to be controlled by UN? Of course UN is still not the most neutral place, with US bankrolling it.
On 7 June 2012 09:28, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: What ?
GG,
at this rate, we are likely going to see how Kenya has been voting all along on this matters!
If this was from Nollywood(Nigerian movie) soon to be replaced by our very own Riverwood (Nairobi River Road) I would say "the plot thickens" .
walu. --- On Thu, 6/7/12, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:48 AM
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.org
As you may have heard, the UN is trying to take over the internet. Well, that’s not really true, but member states of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are definitely going to negotiate an agreement related to the Internet at the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT - pronounced ‘wicket’) this December in Dubai. U.S. officials have warned that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf has warned that “Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the ‘permissionless innovation’ that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights.” So what are these proposals? Well, we don’t know exactly. To see them, you have to have access to the ITU’s password protected website. This lack of transparency brings to mind secret negotiations like the one that gave us ACTA, and several civil society groups have written to the ITU demanding access to the documents. The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a recent panel discussion that I attended, the State Department’s Richard Beaird said, “Access to the proposals, of course, as I have done and others have done, is if you ask me, I will give you those proposals. I don’t want to have a flood of requests coming in from the room or those int he television audience.” At the time, I tweeted: “If someone will pass them to me, I volunteer to host a site with gov WCIT proposals.” It seemed weird to me that someone wasn’t collecting and publishing the documents, like how opencrs.com does with Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote this post urging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote: Today, IGP has learned that the U.S. government is in possession of a document that brings together descriptions of all the WCIT proposals emerging from the ITU’s Council Working Group. The document, known as TD 64, compiles all the proposals on the table into a single document without attributing them to any specific government. No law or treaty stops the US government from making this document available to the public. We urge the U.S. government to release TD 64 of the ITU Council Working Group immediately. Of course, while it’s not illegal, publishing these documents is probably not considered polite in the rarefied diplomatic circles of the ITU. So, I thought we’d give folks with access to the documents a helping hand. Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at WCITLeaks.org. The idea is simple: If you have a WCIT or ITU related document you’d like to share, submit it anonymously and we will publish it. That’s it. We hope you find it useful and that you’ll spread the word.
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The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
participants (5)
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Ali Hussein -
alice＠apc.org -
Grace Githaiga -
Kivuva -
Walubengo J