<div dir="ltr">Dear Kiyosada-san,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the explanation, please find my comments below:<br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Yes, this session is organized mainly to discuss proposals (to WCIT/ITRs) for leveraging the ITU treaty process to quell the global free flow of information. However, we request to remove "WCIT/ITRs" from the title.<br>
<br></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> here we already have some contradiction, </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<font>Reason: The "current" ITRs do NOT have any provision about the Internet. Some countries (Russia, China, etc.) are proposing to amend the ITRs to cover the Internet, but other countries (U.S., Japan, etc.) have not agreed to regulate the Interent under the ITRs. Unless there is the agreement among ITU member countries to discuss possible regulation on the Internet under the ITRs, we should not include WCIT in the title, because WCIT is a name of the gathering to discuss ITRs issues.<div>
<div><div><br></div></div></div></font></div></blockquote><div>in fact the discussion is about the negotiation on the ITR and possible change there like including provisions about cybercrime and spam or more important regarding interconnection settlement which interest developing and developed countries in addition to proposal like the one from ETNO, we need some awareness and clarification about the topic and to inform the various Internet actor in Asia Pacific, I am not even sure that big Japanese telco operators are aware about the issue for example, there was enough confusion on many blogs and media so the purpose of the session is to have ALL stakeholders (gov,civil society, private sector,academia and technical community) and people with experience about ITU process to talk about WCIT/ITR. for example civil society already pointed to the issue of transparency regarding WCIT and then we have initiatives like <a href="http://wcitleaks.org">wcitleaks.org</a></div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><div><div><div></div><div>We expect speakers of this session to have similar discussion with the UN discussion, "International Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet" (for more details, please see the attached document). Robert Guerra, the moderator of the session, has been involved in the UN discussion and would be able to handle this complicated issue properly.<div>
<div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>most people here have long experience in UN processes (whatever UNDESA,CSTD,ECOSOC, UNCTAD) and many attended WSIS 2003, and 2005 and the prepcom meetings in addition to IGF editions since 2005. maybe by UN discussion you mean proposal like CIRP and so on. I guess that we are mixing here WCIT issue and UN discussion which can led to some confusion and overlapping with other existing sessions.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Please remove "WCIT/ITRs" from the title.</div>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>the title is not big deal per se about I am really worried that we are not going to cover WCIT/ITR issue well. </div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Rafik</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><div><div><div>
<div><div><div><div><br>Thanks for your great help!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Tomoe</font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Yoshihiro Obata <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ObataYoshihiro@eaccess.net" target="_blank">ObataYoshihiro@eaccess.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Hong and all,<br>
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Please do nit misunderstand.<br>
Nothing is requested to change but the title. The moderator, the speakers and the content are the same. It focuses on WCIT.<br>
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I think Mr.Drake was asked just to be on the panelist. Not even a presenter.<br>
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I also think that we should not interfere with the coordination unless there are reasons.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Yoshihiro Obata<div><div><br>
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(2012/06/14 21:11), Hong Xue wrote:<br>
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Hi, Obata-san,<br>
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Thanks for the update. On the most latest excel file, I see Mr. Drake<br>
is listed as the (possible) Chair of the Session. I just had a chat<br>
with Drake. He is very interested in the session and willing to chair<br>
it. But he would like the session focused on WCIT issue, rather than<br>
the general international public policy. He is now drafting a few<br>
sentences to elaborate his proposal on how to navigate this session.<br>
I'm not sure the meaning of funding issue but assume that we may wish<br>
to prioritize substance. would you like to contact Drake directly for<br>
more detailed discussion?<br>
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Hong<br>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Yoshihiro Obata<br>
<<a href="mailto:ObataYoshihiro@eaccess.net" target="_blank">ObataYoshihiro@eaccess.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Dear Rafik,<br>
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The content and the speakers are unchanged.<br>
I think it is their funding issue. If you think it is better keep the<br>
WCIT term in the title for people who do not read the content of the session<br>
(which might be put on the web site soon), we can keep it in the sub title<br>
in some manner.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Yoshihiro Obata<br>
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(2012/06/14 19:02), Rafik Dammak wrote:<br>
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Dear Obata-san,<br>
<br>
I thought this session was intended to be about WCIT/ITR in particular and<br>
the new title is quite vague, any reason for such change?<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Rafik<br>
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2012/6/14 Yoshihiro Obata<<a href="mailto:ObataYoshihiro@eaccess.net" target="_blank">ObataYoshihiro@eaccess.<u></u>net</a>><br>
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Dear MSG members,<br>
<br>
I was asked by the session coordinator to change the title of the<br>
WCIT/ITR session to "International Public Policy and Internet Governance<br>
Issues Pertaining to the Internet".<br>
<br>
Please update the web site, too.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Yoshihiro Obata<br>
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