Re: [alac] WSIS agenda

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John L ha scritto:
> Since ICANN has done such a bad job on the issues it has tried to deal 
> with, like i18n domain names, I agree.
>
> But a more competent ICANN would be a fine place to convene discussions 
> to address Net issues, even if the work to be done isn't ICANN's.  For 
> example, the London Action Plan on spam is an ad-hoc group mostly of 
> government consumer agencies.  If ICANN had reasonable relationships 
> with governments, ICANN would have been the right place to convene that 
> group, even though very little of what they do directly affects DNS.

I've thought this in the past for a number of issues, but apparently 
ICANN doesn't want and doesn't have the "organizational culture" to do 
it. Whether the new forum will be able to do it, it's still to be 
understood - I hope so.
In any case, it has often been said that the Forum should piggyback on 
existing Internet Governance meetings... even if now it seems that 
there's a rush to host it "ad hoc" (Greece already formally obtained the 
first meeting, and the Brazilian Minister Gilberto Gil declared in 
public they want to get it for 2007).
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