Dear colleagues,
The European Commission this week launched two public consultations that members of this working group may have an interest in responding to:
- On-line public consultation on "specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open Internet"
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/actions/oit-consulta…
- On-line public consultation on Improving Network and Information Security (NIS) in the EU
http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=securitystrategy2
The final date for submissions on both open consultations is 15 October 2012.
Best regards,
Chris Buckridge
External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC
Hi,
ISOC has, based on the number of proposals for WCIT calling for special provisions in the ITRs written a document that I think would be interesting for the participants of the cooperation wg.
Sally of ISOC writes:
> Dear colleagues,
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> In recent months, a number of proposals have come forward in the WCIT process that call for provisions to be included in the ITRs to create a new model of Internet interconnection that would establish an end-to-end quality of service delivery mechanism with pre-defined end-to-end performance objectives, and; to establish a system of settlements between network operators based on sending-party-network-pays.
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> ISOC has great concerns with these are proposals and we thought that an analysis might be useful for the community and for policy makers. This analysis is attached. There have been many comments on the various mailing lists about these issues and those comments have been quite useful in helping to shape this paper - so, thank you! We fully expect this analysis to evolve in the run-up to the WCIT as the proposals to the Conference also evolve.
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> http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-interconnections-commercial-arrange…
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> In the meantime, we hope that you find this to be useful. We are working to translate the document now.
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> Best Regards,
> Sally
>
Patrik Fältström
co-chair cooperation wg
Dear colleagues,
This year has already brought a deluge of news and commentary about the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), but I wanted to share a couple of recent developments that may be of interest to the members of this Working Group.
ITU IPv6 Group
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Established by ITU Council in 2009, this group was tasked with reporting on a number of issues raised by ITU Member States regarding the distribution of IPv6 address space and the deployment of IPv6. Further details about the group, including its full Terms of Reference, can be found here:
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/others/ipv6/Pages/default.aspx
At the fourth meeting of the ITU IPv6 Group in June 2012, the participants agreed that the group's mission, as laid out in the Terms of Reference, had been fulfilled. The report of that meeting recommended that ITU Council officially close the group, and Council has now accepted and acted upon this recommendation.
Also contained in the report of the fourth meeting were the following findings:
• That "current IPv6 allocation policies and processes met the needs of stakeholders."
• That "future work of IPv6 human capacity building activities and project on technical, policy and economic aspects of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be continued and led by ITU-BDT in collaboration with interested partner entities (RIRs, NAv6, Cisco, etc.) and partner States (Czech Republic, Sudan, Sweden, etc.)."
WCIT and the ITRs
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The most recent ITU Council meeting also discussed the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) and the revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs). The Internet technical community (including the RIPE NCC and other RIRs) and other ITU stakeholders have been arguing strongly for greater openness and transparency in the WCIT process. Council has now agreed to make public the working draft of the revised ITRs (CWG-WCIT TD-64), although access to the individual proposals will remain restricted to ITU Members.
The ITU Secretariat will post the draft ITRs online at:
http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspx
Finally, the RIPE NCC has updated the ITU-related information on its website, which now includes links to a number of articles by APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston that are relevant to discussion of the ITRs:
https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/internet-governance/multi-stakeh…
If you have any questions regarding the RIPE NCC's engagement with the ITU, we are happy to discuss the subject on this mailing list (<cooperation-wg(a)ripe.net>).
Best regards,
Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC
