[WSIS CS-Plenary] Censorship on the New Generation Internet (IPv6) Workshop: 9th Dec(13:30-16:30)

[Adam Peake]

Very sorry to hear this.

Perhaps Dr. Escudero could provide a list of questions he thinks 
should be asked during the session?

Adam



At 11:48 PM +0100 12/8/03, Stephane Koch wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am writing to inform you that during the organization of the session on
>Ipv6, organized jointly between the European Union IPv6 Task Force and the
>Internet Society, that will take place on the 9th December 2003, it was
>planned to include Dr Alberto Escudero Pascual in the panel of speakers for
>the day. Dr Escudero Pascual would have discussed the issues relating to the
>protection of privacy in Ipv6 networks.
>
>Unfortunately, due to pressures but also threats of boycott from Mr Latif
>Ladid, the organizers of the conference decided to remove Dr Escudero
>Pascual from the panel. One can wonder about the real motivations of Mr
>Ladid relating to his will to obscure the discussion about privacy
>protection issues in the context of Ipv6.
>
>It is interesting to note that it is not necessary to live in an
>undemocratic country to suffer from censorship. It is even more worrying to
>observe that, even in the context of events organized by Civil Society, one
>can easily excert such pressures at the detriment of the objectivity of the
>debate on this subject.
>
>It seems to me that we have the full responsibility, as the principal
>component of Civil Society, to represent as well as we can citizens, the
>protection of their interests and therefore their privacy. If we do not,
>then who will?
>
>Alberto Escudero Pascual Web site
>http://www.it.kth.se/~aep/
>
>Best regards
>Stéphane Koch
>Président, Internet Society Geneva
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