[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fourth Unofficial personal report of ad-hoc working group for Internet Governance, Prepcom III, WSIS

[Chun Eung Hwi]

I am sorry for not describing the whole scene that is happening in Prepcom 
III, but I am only one person who has body imprisoned in physical limit, 
which is far away from cyberspace itself. Therefore, please forgive me. 
And I have my own personal concern among many issues. That is why I am 
concentrating on only this one specific issue of Internet Governance. 
Moreover, although many people may not believe my excuse, as a non-English 
speaker, my English capacity is not so good. I have much feelings on 
Plenary session of Sub-com II, but if I should summarize it as much as I 
have done to now, it takes much time. 

This morning, as promised yesterday evening session, I tried to attend to 
ad-hoc working group of Internet Governance, but the meeting place was not 
notified. As I asked the meeting place to other national delegates, they 
answered it was very vague yesterday. As a result, morning session was 
broken. 

In the morning main session of Sub-com II, many delegations including the 
U.S., Brazil, China expressed that they are waiting for the results of the 
above-mentioned working group with respect to internet governance related 
action plan items. Immediately after lunch time, the meeting place and 
time (14:00) was notified again on the board. So, I attended to that 
meeting again. Then, almost half of delegations were present there 
compared with yesterday evening session. Maybe, too late notification 
might make so. Anyhow, after ten minutes passed away, Chair declared the 
opeing. Chair requested five minutes comments from observers. 

The first comment was made by private sector. Multi-stakehoder 
participation and public-private partnership should be inserted at the 
first bullet. And In the 2nd bullet, private sector leadership should be 
emphasized in all areas of Internet. We are not talking about the 
leadership for development in general, but talking about leadership at the 
stage of planning, designing of technical things. 

The second comment was made by Mr. Bertrand Chappelle. He suggested to 
insert "with the consensus of local internet community" in the third 
bullet sentence. (Yesterday he had already proposed to reformulate it. 
Today, he coined the concrete words.) And also he pointed out the 
intercontradiction of bullet sentence 1 and 4 because 4 is saying that 
government's sole while the first bullet sentence is emphasizing the 
importance of multi stakeholders. 

Yesterday, as finally resolved, the rules of procedure allowed five 
minutes presentation from observers and observers should leave during 
negotiation, and after the closing negotiation, chair will brief its 
outcome to observers. So, private sector person asked when they can get 
briefing. The answer of the chair was very vague. It could be immediately 
after the agreement among governments. And it might not be easy to guess 
when it will come up with for now. Correctly speaking nobody knows it. How 
can we know when the briefing will be done? Bertrand's answer to this 
interesting question was that we should keep the gate by standing up.

Chair said to request us to leave out generously, but personally it was 
felt to be forced by some evil power. Please God, forgive them!


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Chun Eung Hwi
General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone:     (+82)  2-2166-2205
Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81   |   pcs:     (+82) 019-259-2667
Seoul, 158-600, Korea  	    | eMail:   chun at peacenet.or.kr
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