[discuss] discuss Digest, Vol 4, Issue 198

Fmakane fmakane at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 21:12:44 UTC 2014


I would like to know if there will be a ministerial session at Netmundial. Also where can we find the draft Programme?

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>   1. Re: [governance] NTIA statement (S Moonesamy)
>   2. Re: [governance] NTIA statement (John Springer)
>   3. Re: [governance] NTIA statement (John Springer)
>   4. Re: [governance] NTIA statement (McTim)
>   5. Re: [governance] NTIA statement (Jefsey)
>   6. Re: [governance] NTIA statement (Norbert Bollow)
>   7. AfICTA Statement on the NTIA Announcement (jolufuye at aficta.org)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:30:45 -0700
> From: S Moonesamy <sm+1net at elandsys.com>
> To: McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com>, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
> Cc: discuss at 1net.org
> Subject: Re: [discuss] [governance] NTIA statement
> Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20140320060949.0d5418f0 at resistor.net>
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> Hi McTim,
> At 03:58 20-03-2014, McTim wrote:
>> I don't know what you are looking for here.
> 
> Mr Bollow was asking for the source of information to verify 
> it.  There was a message originating from Syracuse University in 
> which the information is attributed to ICANN Staff (msg-id: 
> 855077AC3D7A7147A7570370CA01ECD257E43E at SUEX10-mbx-10.ad.syr.edu).
> 
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:32:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com>
> To: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
> Cc: 1Net List <discuss at 1net.org>
> Subject: Re: [discuss] [governance] NTIA statement
> Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403200822530.4915 at mail.inlandnet.com>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> 
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Wherever else the statements in question are recorded, at this location:
> 
> http://www.internetcommerce.org/Secret_ICANN , the author says that:
> 
> "ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade told members of its GNSO Council in Buenos Aires 
> this morning" [11/17/2013] ... "Chehade stressed in his remarks that the 
> Brazil meeting was meant to supplement the Internet Governance Forum but 
> would not produce decisions and would eschew topics (including, 
> emphatically, surveillance issues raised by the Snowden NSA revelations), 
> and be limited to discussing frameworks and principles."
> 
> I don't immediately find relevant transcripts, perhaps someone with better 
> google fu...
> 
> John Springer
> 
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> 
>>> Norbert,
>>> 
>>> I don't know what you are looking for here.
>>> 
>>> Would you like to deny that he said that?
>>> 
>>> Would you like to deny that a link to a video in which he said that
>>> was posted?
>> 
>> Hi McTim
>> 
>> If Fadi indeed said what you claim he said then I want to be able to
>> understand the context, quote his statement, and give the source.
>> 
>> If on the other hand the assertion about Fadi having said this in a
>> well-publicized video cannot be substantiated, I'd request that that
>> assertion be withdrawn.
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>> 
>> 
>>> If it wasn't on governance, perhaps it was on BB or 1net.
>>> 
>>> I know he said it, I don't know if he meant it, I know that a link to
>>> the video was posted and discussed.
>>> 
>>> rgds,
>>> 
>>> McTim
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>>>> Hi McTim
>>>> 
>>>> I've now looked in the archives of governance list... in your
>>>> postings from that time period, there is precisely one link to a
>>>> video of Fadi, this one:
>>>> 
>>>> http://blog.planalto.gov.br/brasil-vai-sediar-encontro-mundial-sobre-governanca-da-internet-em-2014/
>>>> 
>>>> That video does not contain any basis for your claim about Fadi
>>>> having said something along the lines of "if surveillance were
>>>> discussed, ICANN would pull out."
>>>> 
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> Norbert
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Am Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:54:43 -0400
>>>> schrieb McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>>> We discussed this months ago on the governance list, it is in one
>>>>> of the first video interviews
>>>>> he made post NetMundial announcement.  I pointed at it then, you'll
>>>>> have to look in the archives.
>>>>> 
>>>>> rgds,
>>>>> 
>>>>> McTim
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:16 AM, parminder
>>>>>>> <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Agree, developments on the ICANN oversight issue do not
>>>>>>>> constitute any real response to mass surveillance problem. And
>>>>>>>> since NetMundial came out of a series of events directly
>>>>>>>> connected to the mass surveillance problem, and which is the
>>>>>>>> main reason the 'global community' invested into it, it is
>>>>>>>> only fair to the people across the world that we have
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 1. discussions on this issues
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You must recall Fadi saying in the very early days that if
>>>>>>> surveillance were discussed, ICANN would pull out.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> When and where precisely did Fadi say this? Is there a recording
>>>>>> and/or transcript available?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>> Norbert
>> 
>> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:10:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com>
> To: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
> Cc: 1Net List <discuss at 1net.org>
> Subject: Re: [discuss] [governance] NTIA statement
> Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403200903070.4915 at mail.inlandnet.com>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> 
> Found the transcript:
> 
> Very long URL shortened, http://goo.gl/0HsmQr
> 
> and for those that don't like obfuscated URLs, google
> gnso buenos aires transcript fadi 17 surveillance
> top result
> 
> excerpt from page 8, fadi Chehade speaking :
> 
> "Last thing I want to tell you is that we have assurances at the highest 
> level now that the Brazil meeting will not include topics. It will not 
> include topics. For all of us running around saying it's a summit about 
> surveillance, it's neither a summit, it's neither about surveillance. 
> Okay, let's be very comfortable with that."
> 
> see also page 19
> 
> John Springer
> 
> 
>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, John Springer wrote:
>> 
>> Gentlemen,
>> 
>> Wherever else the statements in question are recorded, at this location:
>> 
>> http://www.internetcommerce.org/Secret_ICANN , the author says that:
>> 
>> "ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade told members of its GNSO Council in Buenos Aires this 
>> morning" [11/17/2013] ... "Chehade stressed in his remarks that the Brazil 
>> meeting was meant to supplement the Internet Governance Forum but would not 
>> produce decisions and would eschew topics (including, emphatically, 
>> surveillance issues raised by the Snowden NSA revelations), and be limited to 
>> discussing frameworks and principles."
>> 
>> I don't immediately find relevant transcripts, perhaps someone with better 
>> google fu...
>> 
>> John Springer
>> 
>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>> 
>>>> Norbert,
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know what you are looking for here.
>>>> 
>>>> Would you like to deny that he said that?
>>>> 
>>>> Would you like to deny that a link to a video in which he said that
>>>> was posted?
>>> 
>>> Hi McTim
>>> 
>>> If Fadi indeed said what you claim he said then I want to be able to
>>> understand the context, quote his statement, and give the source.
>>> 
>>> If on the other hand the assertion about Fadi having said this in a
>>> well-publicized video cannot be substantiated, I'd request that that
>>> assertion be withdrawn.
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> Norbert
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> If it wasn't on governance, perhaps it was on BB or 1net.
>>>> 
>>>> I know he said it, I don't know if he meant it, I know that a link to
>>>> the video was posted and discussed.
>>>> 
>>>> rgds,
>>>> 
>>>> McTim
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>>>>> Hi McTim
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've now looked in the archives of governance list... in your
>>>>> postings from that time period, there is precisely one link to a
>>>>> video of Fadi, this one:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://blog.planalto.gov.br/brasil-vai-sediar-encontro-mundial-sobre-governanca-da-internet-em-2014/
>>>>> 
>>>>> That video does not contain any basis for your claim about Fadi
>>>>> having said something along the lines of "if surveillance were
>>>>> discussed, ICANN would pull out."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> Norbert
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:54:43 -0400
>>>>> schrieb McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> We discussed this months ago on the governance list, it is in one
>>>>>> of the first video interviews
>>>>>> he made post NetMundial announcement.  I pointed at it then, you'll
>>>>>> have to look in the archives.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> rgds,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> McTim
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:16 AM, parminder
>>>>>>>> <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Agree, developments on the ICANN oversight issue do not
>>>>>>>>> constitute any real response to mass surveillance problem. And
>>>>>>>>> since NetMundial came out of a series of events directly
>>>>>>>>> connected to the mass surveillance problem, and which is the
>>>>>>>>> main reason the 'global community' invested into it, it is
>>>>>>>>> only fair to the people across the world that we have
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 1. discussions on this issues
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You must recall Fadi saying in the very early days that if
>>>>>>>> surveillance were discussed, ICANN would pull out.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When and where precisely did Fadi say this? Is there a recording
>>>>>>> and/or transcript available?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>> Norbert
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> discuss mailing list
>>> discuss at 1net.org
>>> http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:40:08 -0400
> From: McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com>
> To: John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com>
> Cc: 1Net List <discuss at 1net.org>
> Subject: Re: [discuss] [governance] NTIA statement
> Message-ID:
>    <CACAaNxiqbiXXJdJNmAH-rZPOZXW0129=H7+T3sURgSh0_Lgw_g at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Thanks for that John, good to know I wasn't imagining it!
> 
> rgds,
> 
> McTim
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32 AM, John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com> wrote:
>> Gentlemen,
>> 
>> Wherever else the statements in question are recorded, at this location:
>> 
>> http://www.internetcommerce.org/Secret_ICANN , the author says that:
>> 
>> "ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade told members of its GNSO Council in Buenos Aires
>> this morning" [11/17/2013] ... "Chehade stressed in his remarks that the
>> Brazil meeting was meant to supplement the Internet Governance Forum but
>> would not produce decisions and would eschew topics (including,
>> emphatically, surveillance issues raised by the Snowden NSA revelations),
>> and be limited to discussing frameworks and principles."
>> 
>> I don't immediately find relevant transcripts, perhaps someone with better
>> google fu...
>> 
>> John Springer
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>> 
>>>> Norbert,
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know what you are looking for here.
>>>> 
>>>> Would you like to deny that he said that?
>>>> 
>>>> Would you like to deny that a link to a video in which he said that
>>>> was posted?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi McTim
>>> 
>>> If Fadi indeed said what you claim he said then I want to be able to
>>> understand the context, quote his statement, and give the source.
>>> 
>>> If on the other hand the assertion about Fadi having said this in a
>>> well-publicized video cannot be substantiated, I'd request that that
>>> assertion be withdrawn.
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> Norbert
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> If it wasn't on governance, perhaps it was on BB or 1net.
>>>> 
>>>> I know he said it, I don't know if he meant it, I know that a link to
>>>> the video was posted and discussed.
>>>> 
>>>> rgds,
>>>> 
>>>> McTim
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi McTim
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've now looked in the archives of governance list... in your
>>>>> postings from that time period, there is precisely one link to a
>>>>> video of Fadi, this one:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://blog.planalto.gov.br/brasil-vai-sediar-encontro-mundial-sobre-governanca-da-internet-em-2014/
>>>>> 
>>>>> That video does not contain any basis for your claim about Fadi
>>>>> having said something along the lines of "if surveillance were
>>>>> discussed, ICANN would pull out."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> Norbert
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:54:43 -0400
>>>>> schrieb McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> We discussed this months ago on the governance list, it is in one
>>>>>> of the first video interviews
>>>>>> he made post NetMundial announcement.  I pointed at it then, you'll
>>>>>> have to look in the archives.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> rgds,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> McTim
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:16 AM, parminder
>>>>>>>> <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Agree, developments on the ICANN oversight issue do not
>>>>>>>>> constitute any real response to mass surveillance problem. And
>>>>>>>>> since NetMundial came out of a series of events directly
>>>>>>>>> connected to the mass surveillance problem, and which is the
>>>>>>>>> main reason the 'global community' invested into it, it is
>>>>>>>>> only fair to the people across the world that we have
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 1. discussions on this issues
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You must recall Fadi saying in the very early days that if
>>>>>>>> surveillance were discussed, ICANN would pull out.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When and where precisely did Fadi say this? Is there a recording
>>>>>>> and/or transcript available?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>> Norbert
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> discuss mailing list
>>> discuss at 1net.org
>>> http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:12:22 +0100
> From: Jefsey <jefsey at jefsey.com>
> To: John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com>,Norbert Bollow
>    <nb at bollow.ch>
> Cc: 1Net List <discuss at 1net.org>
> Subject: Re: [discuss] [governance] NTIA statement
> Message-ID: <mailman.1023.1395348151.11625.discuss at 1net.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> 
> At 17:10 20/03/2014, John Springer wrote:
>> excerpt from page 8, fadi Chehade speaking :
>> 
>> "Last thing I want to tell you is that we have assurances at the 
>> highest level now that the Brazil meeting will not include topics. 
>> It will not include topics. For all of us running around saying it's 
>> a summit about surveillance, it's neither a summit, it's neither 
>> about surveillance. Okay, let's be very comfortable with that."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic%E2%80%93comment
> 
> We can feel confortable, the Brazil meeting will be about a nice cup 
> of tea, or a mug of cofee. It will only include comments on not a 
> single topic.
> 
> At last we know why some people on this list are going to spend in 
> T&L to&in Sao Paulo (just after Singapore) much more money than 
> needed by a FLOSS group to upgrade the Internet: this is NOT for 
> something on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_%28disambiguation%29 list.
> 
> In terms of surveillance; nominees for the Sao Paulo award are:
> 
> - ICANN for WhoIs
> - NSA for PRISM
> - ??? for Snowdenia
> - IANA for "The Unique Authoritative Root" (Special April 1st Prize & 
> 30th Anniversary)
> 
> jfc  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:31:13 +0100
> From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
> To: John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com>
> Cc: 1Net List <discuss at 1net.org>
> Subject: Re: [discuss] [governance] NTIA statement
> Message-ID: <20140320193113.062643a6 at quill>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> John Springer <springer at inlandnet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Found the transcript:
>> 
>> Very long URL shortened, http://goo.gl/0HsmQr
>> 
>> and for those that don't like obfuscated URLs, google
>> gnso buenos aires transcript fadi 17 surveillance
>> top result
> 
> Thank you so much John for pointing me to the right document!!!
> 
>> see also page 19
> 
> which has the following text that very closely matches McTim's claim:
> 
> "And as I told you before, they were in Bali talking about putting
> surveillance on the agenda, right? And we engaged them and we said, no,
> you want to put surveillance as the agenda? Count us out, we're done.
> We're not coming. And it was fine because we were frankly being very
> direct with them. So it's not - no topics will be discussed in Brazil,
> period. No topics. The only things that will be on the agenda is what
> we said from the beginning: We can talk about high level principles and
> we can talk about institutional frameworks, no topics. We can talk
> about how we do Internet governance, not what do we do about a certain
> topic." (Fadi Chehad?, 17 November 2013.)
> 
> Now knowing what specific session to look for, it wasn't too hard to
> also find the audio recording; it can be downloaded from
> http://buenosaires48.icann.org/en/schedule/sun-gnso-working/audio-gnso-working-3-17nov13-en .
> 
> I have verified on the basis of the audio recording that the
> above-quoted transcript section is accurate.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:42:26 -0700
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> To: Discuss at 1net.org, africann at afrinic.net
> Subject: [discuss] AfICTA Statement on the NTIA Announcement
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