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<title>World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)</title>
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<h1>Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)</h1>
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<p>As a result of the first phase of the WSIS, a <a target="_blank"
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href="http://www.wgig.org">United Nations Working Group on Internet
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Governance</a> (WGIG) has been established by Mr. Kofi Annan with
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Mr. Markus Kummer as its Executive Coordinator.</p>
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<p>This working group was meant to be an inclusive exercise and
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generally makes claims to be well-representing "all stakeholders."
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However: Free Software, the base of the internet, was apparently
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deliberately excluded at the onset of the group. As a result, while
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Free Software is found on the <a
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href="http://www.wgig.org/docs/inventory-issues.pdf"
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target="_blank">list of issues</a>, there is no Free Software group
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(organisation, project or company) represented in the WGIG.</p>
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<p>The first exercise of the WGIG was to publish a set of <a
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href="http://www.wgig.org/working-papers.html" target="_blank">issue
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papers</a> about various issues on February 1st, 2005 -- allowing for
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a period of 10 days to submit comments on 20 papers that have been
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drafted for months.</p>
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<p>In close cooperation with its <a href="/associates/">associate</a>
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organisation <a href="http://www.vialibre.org.ar/">La Fundacion
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Via Libre</a>, the Free Software Foundation Europe managed to at least
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comment on two of the most important ones -- although the other papers
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certainly also would have needed commenting.</p>
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<li>Comments on <b>Cyber security, cybercrime</b> working paper<br />
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This paper could be considered a cybercrime itself. It asks to outlaw,
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among other things, hacking, the art of finding elegant solutions to
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non-obvious problems -- in other words: innovation. It also promotes
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censorship and asks to take steps against anything that could be
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considered pornographic material.<br />
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<a href="WGIG-WP-Cybercrime-Comments.pdf">Read more (PDF)</a>
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<li>Comments on <b>Intellectual Property Rights</b> working paper<br />
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In this paper, the WGIG blindly promotes the ideology of
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monopolisation of knowledge to an extent where it asks to "balance
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human rights with these interests." In other words, it asks for the
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to become negotiable
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material; also putting the WGIG in direct confrontation with the WSIS
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Declaration of Principles, which reaffirmed the UDHR and also served
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as the basis for the establishment of the WGIG.<br />
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<a href="WGIG-WP-IPR-Comments.pdf">Read more (PDF)</a>
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</ul>
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<p>The others papers were of similar quality. Unrelated to our
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activities, Mr. Karl Auerbach, Former North American Elected Director,
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ICANN, for instance made the <a
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href="http://www.wgig.org/docs/Comment-Auerbach.pdf"
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target="_blank">general comments</a> on all papers that
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<p class="indent"><em>
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"Too little attention to general principles to shape the discussion and
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too much focus on easy descriptions of technology."
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</em></p>
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<p class="indent"><em>
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"Unquestioning acceptance of the technological status quo as if it
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were a limitation of what could be in the future. For example, one
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paper blindly accepts the very unproven assertion that there may be
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but one DNS root as if that were fact despite years of continuous
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successful actual operational experience to the contrary."
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</em></p>
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<p>
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More comments can be found on the<a
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href="http://www.wgig.org/Comments-Papers.html"
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target="_blank">WGIG website</a>.</p>
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<p>Together with its friends, associates and cooperation partners,
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FSFE continued to follow the process in the WGIG and will continue to
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do so in its followup, the <a href="/activities/igf/">Internet
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Governance Forum (IGF)</a>.</p>
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