ITU "spam" summit concludes in Geneva

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>
Date: July 11, 2004 12:41:57 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] ITU "spam" summit concludes in Geneva

Dave,

Bill Drake was at the ITU Spam workshop, sent some interesting notes to  
another list.

Adam



At 11:32 AM +0200 7/10/04, William Drake wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:32:03 +0200
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> Hi,
>
> Two notes for anyone interested.
>
> 1.  The 3-day ITU WSIS thematic meeting on spam was interesting but  
> inconclusive, just the start of a dialogue.  Many speakers reiterated  
> a standard set of points, e.g. the need for a multipronged approach  
> including technical, self-regulatory, national legislative, and  
> international cooperative measures, and the absence of a "silver  
> bullet" solution.  On the core issue of what kind of international  
> cooperation may be advisable, the discussion alas failed to get into  
> any sort of focused consideration of either substantive principles and  
> norms or alternative institutional arrangements (i.e. regulatory  
> harmonization vs. mutual recognition, MOUs, etc).  But it was pretty  
> clear that many developing countries, and a few people from  
> industrialized countries (it was unclear whether they were really  
> speaking of personal preferences or a settled position of  
> their governments) favored the idea of a global MOU under ITU, which  
> of course ITU would welcome.  On the other side, the EU rep repeatedly  
> said international cooperation is key, and as usual they might like a  
> global approach that reflects and extends what the commission is doing  
> in the 25,  but what that means in practice was left vague.  The US of  
> course would not want to see any kind of international cooperation  
> that involving real rules that obligated it to do anything about  
> US-based spammers, who are the main source of the problem but are  
> politically connected, and it's not eager to see the ITU taking on new  
> functions, even when this could make sense (BTW, I'm told that the  
> direct marketers and the Republicans on the hill are currently pushing  
> through legislation to effectively repeal the legal ban on junk  
> fax---anyone surprised that CAN SPAM was a sham?).  That said, it is  
> easy to imagine that the sort of approach recently taken by the  
> US-UK-Australia MOU being scaled up to an OECD-wide instrument.
>
> The open question of course is where that would leave the developing  
> countries, who really need help.  There's quite a lot of frustration  
> that the industrialized countries keep telling them that adopting  
> e-government, e-commerce, e-everything is the key to development, but  
> when they move in that direction they become awash in all the spam,  
> viruses, and other crap pouring out of the North over the net, which  
> they're frequently not prepared to deal with effectively.  An African  
> delegate I chatted with said a lot of people in his country are  
> getting discouraged from entering further into the e-world by dialing  
> up expensive and slow connections and finding 90% of the mail to be  
> garbage.  Expecting that they'll all become power users and keep up to  
> speed with the latest user side filtering and MS security patches is  
> unrealistic.  Much more can be done at the ISP level etc but there  
> greater international technical assistance is required.  Not  
> surprisingly then, many developing countries want strong international  
> rules etc. backed up by an institutional arrangement they can work  
> with, i.e. ITU.  ITU-D can certainly do more on the assistance side  
> within the existing political mix, but has its limits.  BTW it doesn't  
> appear that the US FTC and parallel agencies in other OECD countries  
> have much of a working relationship with the developing countries,  
> many of whom lack similar agencies; part of the problem.
>
> Main point of relevance here are that there was a pretty clear  
> consensus that international cooperation on spam is regarded to be  
> very much a part of Internet governance. Nobody contested that point.  
>  The question is what if anything the UN WGIG can say or do in this  
> terrain given the nascent state of the wider dialogue and the  
> North-South divisions over what cooperation should entail.  At a  
> minimum though I'd think it could recommend a significant increase in  
> North-South technical assistance, which of course is far less  
> controversial than suggesting actual solutions the US won't accept.   
> Should the caucus at some point manage to put out some brief position  
> statements as WGIG inputs, that angle might be something on which  
> everyone can find common ground.  A user/CS voice is needed here.
>
> The meeting report is at  
> <http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/spam/chairman-report.pdf>http:// 
> www.itu.int/osg/spu/spam/chairman-report.pdf
>
> 2.  The director of ITU-T is organizing an informal consultation on  
> Internet governance and the role of ITU therein for next Thursday July  
> 15.  This was originally for heads of delegation but is now open to  
> anyone, if you'll be passing through  
> Geneva.<http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/md/01/tsb/cir/T01-TSB-CIR 
> -0243!!MSW-E.doc>http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/md/01/tsb/cir/T01- 
> TSB-CIR-0243!!MSW-E.doc
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: July 10, 2004 9:21:27 PM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] ITU "spam" summit concludes in Geneva
> Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com
>
>
>
> [Note:  This item comes from reader Fred Maia.  DLH]
>
> > From: Fred Maia <fmaia () texas net>
> > Date: July 10, 2004 8:23:56 AM PDT
> > To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> > Subject: ITU "spam" summit concludes in Geneva
> >
> > Wave of optimism as ITU WSIS meeting on countering spam closes
> > Priority actions identified to curb spam
> >
> >  Geneva, 9 July 2004 - Participants at the ITU WSIS thematic meeting  
> > on countering spam which concluded its work today agreed on a series  
> > of actions needed to curb spam. The watershed meeting was designed to  
> > launch a global effort that can ultimately lead to the eradication of  
> > spam. Based on a fruitful exchange of views and experiences, the  
> > meeting gave an opportunity to identify where priority action was  
> > needed.
> >
> >  "Spam has grown into a major plague affecting the digital world,"  
> > said Dr Robert Horton, Acting Chair of the Australian Communications  
> > Authority and chairman of the meeting. "We are facing a global  
> > epidemic which can only be combated through a global and concerted  
> > action," he said. "What is at stake is no less than the protection  
> > and preservation of the Internet as we know it. I am convinced that  
> > we can curb spam within the next two years if we act on a number of  
> > fronts simultaneously and make sure that there are no havens for  
> > spammers anywhere in the world", Horton said.
> >
> >  For full text see:
> > <http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2004/17.html>
> >
> >  Chairman's report see:
> >
> > <http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/spam/chairman-report.pdf>
>
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