[cooperation-wg] New on RIPE Labs: Our Response to the UN High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Report

Trade negotiations, including for e-commerce, which includes issues related
to Internet governance, are discussed in specialized circles, typically
within Ministries of Economics (but in the USA there is a specific office
for this).

Those circles are typically quite closed, restricted to government officials
and a few representatives of big companies or industry lobbying groups.
Written inputs to the national and international discussions are often not
made public. In the past, the European Commission even refused access to
members of the European Parliament. Europe has since changes its policies
and does make most of its input papers public. But other countries don't,
and the negotiating texts are still typically not public.

>From my point of view, this is a crass violation of the generally accepted
view that discussions related to Internet governance should be open,
transparent, and multi-stakeholder.

For more details on e-commerce and its relation to Internet governance,
please take a look at the links I provided in my first e-mail, and for WTO
in general see:

  www.ourworldisnotforsale.net 

Best,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars-Johan Liman [mailto:liman at netnod.se]
> Sent: mardi, 1. octobre 2019 23:31
> To: Chris Buckridge
> Cc: Richard Hill; RIPE Cooperation Working Group
> Subject: Re: [cooperation-wg] New on RIPE Labs: Our Response to the UN
> High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Report
> 
> Hi Richard!
> 
> chrisb at ripe.net:
> > ... ...
> > On the substance, the straightforward answer is that, while aware of
> > these issues, the RIPE NCC has not engaged closely with the
> > discussions surrounding digital governance in the World Trade
> > Organization.
> > ... ...
> 
> Just curious: where/in which circles are such discussion being held?
> 
> 				Cheers,
> 				  /Liman
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