[kictanet] is IGF a castrated version of ICANN???

[Judy Okite]

This does not make sense!! Is it meant to be a joke??? Mr. Walubengo?
Kind Regards,

On 7/10/07, Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku at yahoo.com> wrote:
> makes good reading???
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> ICANN San Juan 2007 After a crazed American federal prosecutor wreaked havoc
> on the Puerto Rican roads by wiping out on his motorcycle at 3am doing 105
> mph, immobilizing traffic for ten hours on a major highway, I walked four
> miles on Thursday morning along the beach to the site of the ICANN meeting.
> I made it just in time to the Caribe Hilton for the internet governance
> workshop.
>   Sure glad I caught this one.
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>    In the beginning ... uh, were the critical...uh... internet resources...
> ahm well... we'll get back to that at the Rio conference in November. Sort
> of like Adam wandering around the garden labeling things, the Internet
> Governance Forum (IGF) is still working on its reason for being here.
>   The IGF was created out of whole cloth by the UN as a kind of
> internationalized counterweight to perceived excessive American influence at
> ICANN, and yet no one in attendance, even those who participate in the IGF,
> are quite sure what the IGF even does - apparently it's still defining its
> fundamentals. A good chunk of this mercifully short session consisted of
> participants half-heartedly trying to define what constitute "critical
> internet resources" - the protection of which they've decided is essential
> to their core mission, and which is topic numero uno at the upcoming Rio
> event.
>   The truth is really out there, right?
>   This session in theory was about more than the IGF, but in practice it
> consisted mostly of a discussion about the extent to which the IGF and ICANN
> serve overlapping or even contradictory purposes.
>   There seemed to be a rather diplomatic consensus that the two institutions
> complement each other, but after sitting through an hour of discussion on
> the subject, this correspondent still has absolutely no idea what the IGF
> actually does - or if it even has the power to do anything at all. Is it a
> gripe forum, kind of like those bitter websites American trademark attorneys
> are always trying to shut down? Is it just a glorified networking event? Who
> knows? If I make it to the Rio forum, I'll be sure to let everyone know.
>   Although this topic looked appetizing on the schedule, it's clear that the
> IGF has a lot of work to do if it is to be considered anything more than a
> highly vocal yet castrated version of ICANN. Indeed, the IGF bares an
> uncanny resemblance to that other impotent, internationalized and highly
> vocal institution, the UN General Assembly. That's not to say that it does
> not have value - it's just the political equivalent to a visit to the
> therapist's office. We all need to get stuff off our chest from time to
> time.
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