[cooperation-wg] WTPF in Geneva

Dear all,

Sorry for the extra email – the last one I hope for today – but I need to make an important clarification.

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      From: GLORIOSO Andrea (CNECT)
      Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 11:15 AM
      To: 'Jim Reid'
      Cc: paf at frobbit.se; cooperation-wg at ripe.net
      Subject: RE: [cooperation-wg] WTPF in Geneva


      Before the US started to discuss this Bill, and even before the ITU Plenipotentiary in Guadalajara took place, the European Commission adopted a Communication (a sort of "policy statement") in which it clearly stated its position on the preferred approach to Internet governance. It's COM(2009)277, "Internet governance: the next steps" (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0277:FIN:EN:PDF). If you read that document, it will be clear that the European Commission certainly does not support a purely inter-governmental model to handle the many issues which you can put under the umbrella of "Internet governance". Perhaps unnecessary to state, but since I have had experiences of my words being twisted, I prefer to be redundant.

I did not mean to imply that anyone on this list has ever twisted my words. This is an experience I unfortunately had in other contexts, which has made me rather prudent and prone to quoting the official positions of the European Commission even when it results in longer emails…

Ciao,

Andrea

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