[discuss] Greetings from a new convener !

Sat Aug 2 17:08:26 UTC 2014

Dear Paul,

First of all, thank you and APNINC for accepting to take up the responsibility. As you may all know, 2 months ago I have expressed my intention not to continue the coordination role[1] and have kindly asked for volunteer(s) to replace me and look at ways to revive the initiative. I’m now very happy to see APNIC engagement on this. 

I still fundamentally believe that /1net is a unique opportunity for us to be truly and globally inclusive showing the word that we can listen to everyone’s concern, try to understand them and provide healthy discussion around it. We probably haven’t been able to structured this the way it should be and sometime frustration has emerged from repetitive posts that could be considered as noise/nuisance to the list, but I believe that many who pay careful attention to some of the discussion have taken substantive knowledge and information out of it. The Internet has grown to a point today that we all have to learn to leave and cope with a wider variety of interested people (some with sound background of its governance and operations, some without and some with strong divergent view). Our challenge is to manage all of that in a way that we continue to protect the stability, security and resilience of the Internet we know today and the one of tomorrow that we don’t quiet know well yet. I several times try to compare /1net to an online “extension” of the IGF in the way that it bring everyone on equal footing to this list to discuss issues and share views. I hope that we will continue do so finding the to better structure the outcome.

Thanks to you all who have continuously engaged with the list and listers. A particular thanks to John Curran as well for his very high level engagement and this since the very early stage to explain sometime in simple words some of the technical specificity of the way the Internet work today and where the challenges lie.

I wish to Paul and his team success taking this forward. I will personally continue to provide support where needed and engage with the list (maybe even more now than before). This has been a very enriching experience to me.

Thanks.

- a. [1] - [http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/steercom/2014-May/000602.html]   

On Jul 25, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Paul Wilson <pwilson at apnic.net> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> In case you don’t know me, I’m Paul Wilson, the head of APNIC, the Regional Internet address Registry for Asia pacific (www.apnic.net).
> 
> For the past month or so I’ve been in discussions with the 1net steering committee, and ICANN, about how I could support 1net further. Since playing a role in the “Montevideo Statement” last year, I’ve seen 1net as as important response to our call to “catalyse community action” on Internet governance.  
> 
> I’ve seen 1net grow and prove itself successful, with impressive participation and some very active discussions.  But I’ve also seen a lull following NETmundial, and I do feel personally motivated to participate and help 1net to maintain its momentum.
> 
> During the latest ICANN meeting (in London), there were discussions among SteerCom members, followed by these decisions:
> 
> - The Steering Committee would be renamed as the “Coordination Committee” (CoCom for short) to better reflect a role not to direct 1net, but to support and facilitate it.
> - I would be accepted as a voluntary “convener” of 1net, taking on the role played by Adiel Akplogan until recently.
> - APNIC would take on the hosting/administration of the 1net platform (and the small costs involved).
> 
> 
> My own vision for 1net is as an inclusive, neutral, global, multi-stakeholder platform, for discussing Internet governance and cooperation issues, particularly where more suitable forums do not exist.  I believe it should be a democratic, self-organising, bottom-up space that serves a needed purpose; and it should only continue while that purpose remains.  For now it is not and should not be an “organisation” in any form, and so it should remain until the 1net community determines otherwise.
> 
> My next hope is that the 1net community, with support of the CoCom, will start to steer 1net in a useful direction, both in terms of the content of discussions and the ongoing development of the platform.  With your active participation I am sure that 1net can prove and maintain itself as a valid and useful space.  
> 
> I should mention that I am a member of the IGF MAG and 1net is not intended by anyone to supplant the IGF in any way;  rather it is a platform that can support and strengthen IGF, as one of its stated aims.  That of course is to be agreed with others, and proven in time, but it is my personal hope.
> 
> I will leave it there, but hope to see some discussion here about these changes, and related matters.  I know that there are other issues about the functioning of 1net, and hope that these can now be discussed too, along with discussions about the real business of 1net, Internet Governance.
> 
> Thanks to you all, for your support of 1net so far, and in future.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Paul. 
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