---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:21:58 +0900 (KST) From: Chun Eung Hwi <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: Fourth Unofficial personal report of ad-hoc working group for Internet Governance, Prepcom III, WSIS I am sorry for not describing the whole scene that is happening in Prepcom III, but I am only one person who has body imprisoned in physical limit, which is far away from cyberspace itself. Therefore, please forgive me. And I have my own personal concern among many issues. That is why I am concentrating on only this one specific issue of Internet Governance. Moreover, although many people may not believe my excuse, as a non-English speaker, my English capacity is not so good. I have much feelings on Plenary session of Sub-com II, but if I should summarize it as much as I have done to now, it takes much time. This morning, as promised yesterday evening session, I tried to attend to ad-hoc working group of Internet Governance, but the meeting place was not notified. As I asked the meeting place to other national delegates, they answered it was very vague yesterday. As a result, morning session was broken. In the morning main session of Sub-com II, many delegations including the U.S., Brazil, China expressed that they are waiting for the results of the above-mentioned working group with respect to internet governance related action plan items. Immediately after lunch time, the meeting place and time (14:00) was notified again on the board. So, I attended to that meeting again. Then, almost half of delegations were present there compared with yesterday evening session. Maybe, too late notification might make so. Anyhow, after ten minutes passed away, Chair declared the opeing. Chair requested five minutes comments from observers. The first comment was made by private sector. Multi-stakehoder participation and public-private partnership should be inserted at the first bullet. And In the 2nd bullet, private sector leadership should be emphasized in all areas of Internet. We are not talking about the leadership for development in general, but talking about leadership at the stage of planning, designing of technical things. The second comment was made by Mr. Bertrand Chappelle. He suggested to insert "with the consensus of local internet community" in the third bullet sentence. (Yesterday he had already proposed to reformulate it. Today, he coined the concrete words.) And also he pointed out the intercontradiction of bullet sentence 1 and 4 because 4 is saying that government's sole while the first bullet sentence is emphasizing the importance of multi stakeholders. Yesterday, as finally resolved, the rules of procedure allowed five minutes presentation from observers and observers should leave during negotiation, and after the closing negotiation, chair will brief its outcome to observers. So, private sector person asked when they can get briefing. The answer of the chair was very vague. It could be immediately after the agreement among governments. And it might not be easy to guess when it will come up with for now. Correctly speaking nobody knows it. How can we know when the briefing will be done? Bertrand's answer to this interesting question was that we should keep the gate by standing up. Chair said to request us to leave out generously, but personally it was felt to be forced by some evil power. Please God, forgive them! -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Chun Eung Hwi General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone: (+82) 2-2166-2205 Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81 | pcs: (+82) 019-259-2667 Seoul, 158-600, Korea | eMail: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------