<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Grace</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing. The very fact that 'nobody' knows what these documents/proposals contain smack of duplicity and a 'whiff of corruption'. I'm perfectly willing (in fact will be glad and sigh with relief) if I'm proven wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Does someone at CCK who may have a password to the ITU protected section of the site share with us? Anyone who served in GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee) at ICANN may have access to these documents? </div><div><br></div><div>We must not forget that the very nature of the Internet and Telecommunications today (it's freedom or the illusion of it) is what has fostered the incredible innovation and transparency in both private and governmental circles. </div><div><br><div>Ali Hussein</div><div><br></div><div>+254 773/713 601113</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone®</div></div><div><br>On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Grace Githaiga <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wcitleaks.org/" target="_blank">http://wcitleaks.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="ecxdate"><a href="http://jerrybrito.org/day/2012/06/06/" target="_blank">Wednesday, June 6, 2012</a></div>
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<h2><a href="http://jerrybrito.org/post/24541436396/today-were-launching-wcitleaks-org" target="_blank">Today we’re launching WCITLeaks.org</a></h2>As you may have heard, <a href="http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/officials-say-threats-from-net.php" target="_blank">the UN is trying to take over the internet</a>.
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. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577229074023195322.html" target="_blank">U.S. officials have warned</a> that some member states, including Russia and China, have put forth proposals to regulate the Internet. Vint Cerf <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html" target="_blank">has warned</a>
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.”<br>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 <a href="http://wcitleaks.org/" target="_blank">have written</a> to the ITU demanding access to the documents.<br>The proposals are not classified and it’s not illegal to share them. In fact, they often are shared. At a <a href="http://www.c-span.org/Events/Dubai-Conference-Could-Change-How-Internet-Operates/10737431086/" target="_blank">recent panel discussion</a>
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.”<br>At the time, I <a href="https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/207889003171684352" target="_blank">tweeted</a>:
“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 <a href="http://opencrs.com">opencrs.com</a> does with
Congressional Research Service reports. I promptly forgot about the
idea, but was reminded yesterday when Milton Mueller wrote <a href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/06/05/we-want-td64-itu-transparency-begins-at-home/" target="_blank">this post</a> urging the U.S. to make documents available. He wrote:<br>
<blockquote>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.<br>
</blockquote>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.<br>Yesterday Eli Dourado and I spent a couple of hours putting together a website at <a href="http://wcitleaks.org" target="_blank">WCITLeaks.org</a>.
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.<br></div></div><div><br></div><br><div> <div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 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