[IRP] Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals

[Lee W McKnight]

If this actually works and the ITU changed its document release policies, it would be truly historic.

Over a few beers sometime I can tell tales of how at the dawn of the public Internet a couple decades ago, I was working with DARPA - and the ITU - to help get the ITU standards docs online. Which DARPA hoped would then be more readily accessible. Nope - not unless you were a dues-paying ITU member. Anyway, if global CS pulls off what DARPA couldn't and opens ITU processes some...well let's not get our hopes too high but I think this does box the ITU into a corner at least.

Good luck to us/cs!

Lee


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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 2:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRP] Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals

Here is the call for endorsement. We just start o collect signatures

EFF Joins Coalition Denouncing Secretive WCIT Planning Process. Civil Society Seeks Access to Planning Documents for Secret Negotiations Around Internet Regulation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/eff-joins-coalition-denouncing-secretive-wcit-planning-process


On 5/19/12 9:43 AM, parminder wrote:
Katitiza

I did not see when this letter went around to seek endorsements. IT for Change would have endorsed.... We ourselves made some effort post WSIS through the WSIS plenary CS list, and IGC list, to seek opening up of ITU's documents to public access quoting provisions of WSIS documents.... However, the effort did not succeed... parminder

On Saturday 19 May 2012 01:34 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
FYI:

Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty proposals
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/hey-itu-member-states-no-more-secrecy-release-wcit-documents-0


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