[cooperation-wg] RIPE NCC Contribution to the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

Richard,

I think we agree.

"Enhanced cooperation” was, as far as certain EU folk were concerned, about a group of states cooperating independently of the US.

In that context the US would of course choose a different interpretation. 

So of course there was, and perhaps is, scope for inherent disagreement.

Gordon


> On 26 Dec 2016, at 17:19, Richard Hill <rhill at hill-a.ch> wrote:
> 
> Dear Gordon
> 
> Thank you for this.  As you may recall, I was a member of the WSIS secretariat when the text in question was negotiated and I was involved in the discussions. 
> 
> As I recall, the term "enhanced coordination" was used as a an euphemism for "end unilateral US control of Internet governance in general and of ICANN and IANA in particular".
> 
> However, after the text was agreed, there was disagreement regarding its intent: as I recall, the USA took the view that the intent was to encourage more cooperation amongst UN agencies and between those agencies and other Internet governance bodies such as ICANN.
> 
> But others might have different recollections. 
> 
> Best Richard
> 
> 
> Sent from Samsung Mobile.
> 

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