[IGFmaglist] CCTLDs to co-fund IGF & IGF Istanbul "must-haves"

[William Drake]

Excellent!

On May 7, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Vladimir Radunovic <vladar at diplomacy.edu> wrote:

> Colleagues,
> 
> some good news from several ccTLDs:
> "That's why at the recent NETmundial meeting in Brazil , CIRA joined a group
> of ccTLDs to financially support the IGF . Together, we committed a minimum
> of $100,000 per year for several years. Participating registries include .AU
> (Australia) , .DK (Denmark) , .CN (China) , .NL (Netherlands) , .UK (United
> Kingdom) , .BR (Brazil) and .MX (Mexico) . I expect other ccTLDs to join us
> soon."
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140506_netmundial_and_the_igf_putting_your_m
> oney_where_your_mouth_is/ 
> 
> Hopefully this initiative for a greater financial stability of the IGF will
> grow. 
> With this will grow the MAG responsibility to make IGF respond to
> strengthened role, increased trust and finances.
> 
> We need to make sure IGF Istanbul:
> - will clearly address burning issues that NETmundial, CSTD WG and others
> didn't resolve (incl. "respective roles and responsibilities", enhanced
> cooperation, liability of intermediaries, net neutrality, surveillance,
> cyber-conflicts etc)
> - will be able to follow the dynamics of developments even after the
> programme of Istanbul has been finalised (through ongoing public
> contributions to each session, as I suggested in one of the previous emails)
> - will move more towards tangible outputs - either following the ISOC
> proposal on RFC, and/or best practices, strengthened format of the output
> messages, bottom-up document proposals within IGF, or any other model
> 
> Let's make sure we discuss all this also today and in Paris.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 	Vlada
> 
> 
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William J. Drake
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  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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