Dear Ellie, thanks for sending these along!

 

The explainer is very good – but it is missing a profoundly important piece, which is the governance of critical Internet resources. Major member-states want to change this. I would argue that this is actually the crown jewel of WSIS: without it, we wouldn’t have the Internet we have today because member-states would be deciding what services can be put online through control of IP addresses, the DNS and other unique identifiers.

 

I’d be interested in hearing views on this, but it seems to me that while it is not practical to ‘unwind’ the WSIS language in this respect, the review resolution could make clear that the commitment to it is lessened, or in some other way imply that the member-states intend to have more to do with CIRs. This would be very dangerous and highly damaging – and be used to undermine stakeholder-based decision-making for other areas of Internet policy too, like AI – which is also being negotiated now in New York

 

Best, Nick

 

 

 

Nick Ashton-Hart 
APCO 
(m) +1 202 779 1072

 

Book time to meet with me here 

 

On 2/19/25, 6:46 AM, "Ellie McDonald via wsis20" <wsis20@icann.org> wrote:

 

Dear all (apologies for some cross-posting),

 

We recently updated GPD's explainer blog on the WSIS+20 process (Everything you need to know about the WSIS+20 Review) and associated calendar to reflect developments to the timeline following the publication of the intergovernmental consultation process to finalise the modalities of the review process. We would like to be a useful and "live" resource for the community and will continue to update it. 

 

At the same time, I wanted to share two inputs recently submitted to the ITU Council Working Group on WSIS & SDGs call for inputs on the WSIS+20. The first is GPD's individual submission. The second is a joint civil society submission, submitted by ARTICLE 19, APC, Data Privacy Brazil, Derechos Digitales, ECNL, GPD, ICNL, Paradigm Initiative, Research ICT Africa and the Wikimedia Foundation.

 

We hope the above may be useful and would welcome any feedback or questions about the submissions.

 

Best wishes,

 

Ellie

 

Ellie McDonald (she/her)

Policy and Advocacy Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL

M: +44 (0)7502277163 | Time zone: GMT | gp-digital.org 

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