[kictanet] WCITleaks just launched

Thu Jun 7 10:17:16 EAT 2012

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 at 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 at hotmail.com>* wrote:
>
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> From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:48 AM
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> 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 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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>         //
> Cynthia M. Wong
> Director, Global Internet Freedom Project
> Center for Democracy & Technology
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