[discuss] Statement of the European Commission of 15.03.2014: Towards further Globalisation of the Internet

[Seun Ojedeji]

The Sao Paulo agenda taking a direction. I guess Milton's word is it then
"take one step at a time". Hopefully surveillance will have it's place in
future as with the look of things, it does not seem issues relating to
surveillance will be prominent at Br event(which ofcourse was one of the
major reason for the event initially).

While the globalization of IANA itself is a good thing(which is actually an
act of securing the future), any chance this could be a strategic
distraction from addressing the present happenings of mass surveillance.
Well time will tell.

Cheers!
sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 16 Mar 2014 08:20, "Andrea Glorioso" <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:

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>  Towards further Globalisation of the Internet
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> European Commission - STATEMENT/14/70   15/03/2014
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>   European Commission
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> Statement
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> Brussels, 15 March 2014
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> Towards further Globalisation of the Internet
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> Brussels, 15 March 2014 - Vice President Neelie Kroes today warmly
> welcomed the announcement of the United States Government to "transition
> out of the IANA function", which will allow a more global multi-stakeholder
> basis for an important element of governance of the Internet.
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> "This is an historical step in making Internet governance truly global,
> and marks major progress towards the development of a multi-stakeholder
> model as advocated in the Commission's recent Communication" Vice-President
> Kroes said.
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> Until now the United States has had the final say in changes to globally
> used data on top-level Internet domain names, such as .com or .de.  The
> Commission has been pushing for such a move since 2009 and, most recently
> in its Communication on Internet Policy and Governance of 12 February 2014,
> called for the globalisation of the IANA functions.
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> The Commission's Communication - like the US announcement - stresses the
> need to safeguard in the globalisation process the security and stability
> of the Internet, and commits to the multi-stakeholder model of governance.
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> "It is a very timely announcement, ahead of an important multi-stakeholder
> conference in São Paulo on Internet governance principles and the future
> evolution of the governance ecosystem" added Vice President Kroes. "The
> European Commission will work together with the US and with all global
> stakeholders to implement the globalisation of the IANA functions in a
> process that is accountable and transparent, and in a manner that secures
> the open Internet and that will underpin human rights."
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