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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:53:02 +0900
From: Izumi AIZU <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [WSIS-CT] Internet Governance WG (report from inside the room)

Internet Governance WG of the governments just started now in room 15.
Civil Society are allowed to sit and observe by the chair, after clarification
question from Japan.


There came, almost out of blue, a new proposal, from Chair, and sharply
rejected by US, after a few round of exchange, they agreed to discuss
based on the original draft Action plan.

Here is the new proposal from the Chair:

f) The Internet has evolved into a global public infrastructure and its
governance
should constitute a core issues of Information Society agenda. As a
consequence, there of

1) Call on the secretary general of ITU, in his capacity of HLSOC, in
collaboration with relevant international organizations, to establish and
coordinate a task force to investigate and make proposal on the governance
of Internet by 2005, addressing the following:

  i) A universally representative solution on the international management
of Internet resources, including but not limited to root servers, domain
names, and Internet Protocol address assignment.
  ii) Preliminary work toward the establishment of regional root-servers
  iii) Development and deployment of a broad-based multilingual domain and
host name solution that is compatible with the current DNS architecture,
  iv) Coordination and implementation of the multilingual domain name
strategy with country code registry interested in implementing multilingual
domain name capabilities in their top level domain names.

2) Governments are encouraged to
  i) Establish national and regional Internet Exchange Centers
  ii) Manage their respective country code top level domain name (ccTLD)
  iii) Promote awareness on the use of the Internet

and now debate is ongoing....


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