Agenda IV-1 ANSI IPR PC October 5 Update on
Actions Related to Internet Governance Forum
(And Yale Information Society Project)
Mr. Willingmyre will provide an update on various IPR
and standards policy discussions
since Report at ANSI IPR PC May 6, 2009
George T. Willingmyre, P.E.
GTW Associates
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IV-1 Standards/IP Policy at the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF)
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Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic
Coalition on Open Standards (IGF DCOS) –
[http://igf-dcos.org] addressing “most urgent
problems related to open technology standards
and application interoperability”
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Fourth IGF meeting Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 15-18
November 2009 http://www.intgovforum.org
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http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/c
hronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2009View
&wspid=361 (Excerpts below from DCOS URL
workshop proposal)
In recent years, the Dynamic Coalition on Open
Standards (DCOS) has focused on governmental
procurement and on standard setting organisations
(SSOs). DCOS intends to advance its work on these
topics. Additionally, we feel a need to examine Open
Standards from the perspective of rights
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There is a complex and entangled relationship between the
rights of consumers, citizens, non-citizens, governments,
competing corporations, etc., within which the
promotion/adoption/enforcement of standards plays
a part. For instance, governments have a duty towards
their people to ensure that the data that they hold in
trust for the people is easily accessible to them and can
be reused by them.
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Still, governments are also the largest consumers of
standards, and by adopting certain standards, force the
public to make certain choices as well. Similarly,
ensuring unhindered portability from one product to
another comparable one, and interoperability of
comparable devices and applications should
be seen as part of that set of minimum rights of
consumers, inclusive of governments, that corporations
are obliged to respect.
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Part of the aim of the workshop will be to disentangle the
relationships between some of these rights and map out
some directions which a rights-based framework
can take. To further establish the translation of these
rights from principles to practice, we propose a
workshop in the format of a technical workshop
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The workshop will help bring out the issues that are currently being
faced and likely to be encountered in the future by governments,
consumers and the public, addressing specific areas such as the
needs of the disabled community and perspectives of developing
countries, and the possible solutions that governments and vendors
can offer through implementation of open standards. The discussion
would primarily revolve around issues of governmental
procurement of software, open e-governance, portability, and
interoperability, which affect everything from communications
protocols, documents, multimedia, and databases, to hardware
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Governance Forum (IGF)
1) Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium / Web
Foundation
2) Steve Mutkoski, Microsoft, USA
3) Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands
4) Aslam Raffee, Sun Microsystems, South Africa
5) James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
6) OSOSS, Government of the Netherlands (Ineke Schop)
7) IDABC, EU (Karel de Vriendt)
8) MAMPU, Malaysia (Normah binti Md Yusof)
9) Ministry of Commerce, China: (An Baisheng)
10) Department of Information Technology, India
11) Government of the United States of America
12) Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer Updegrove LLP
13) Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society, India
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IV-1 Yale Information Society Project
PROCEEDINGS From STANDARDS SUMMIT
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/News_&_Events/Standards_Summit_P
roceedings.pdf
AT YALE LAW SCHOOL
HOSTED BY THE
YALE INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECT
November 21, 2008
New Haven, CT
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Technical Standards Recommendations for the Obama
Administration March 2, 2009
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/News_&_Events/Stan
dards_RecommendationsREV.pdf
Develop a Government Open Standards Strategy.
Form a United States Standards Advisory Council
Strengthen International Standards Collaboration.
Encourage the Formation of a Global Multi-stakeholder
Standards Advocacy Group
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Work continues on a paper "Technology principles for open
government"
to be shared with Beth Novek , Director of Obama’s open
government initiative
http://www.peopleandplace.net/on_the_wire/2009/3/29/beth
_noveck_wiki-government__democracy
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