WSIS / Internet Governance BoF
22 Feb 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

In short, following after the WSIS Declaration and Plan of Actions, the United Nations will start a Working Group, under Koffi Anan, to discuss about the "Internet Governance" including, but not limited to the management regime of Names and Addresses. Among the governments who proposed to put inter-governmental organizations such as ITU in place for policy matters are several Asian governments including China and Korea.

At this point, the UN has not shown any sign as to how to organize this WG, but ITU is going to hold 2-day workshop on Internet Governance on Feb 26-27 and I am invited as "experts" to give some inputs.
(that's why I need to leave KL on 24th evening to catch a plane from Tokyo to Geneva the next morning!)

UN ICT Task Froce will have 2-day special session called "Global Forum"
on Mar 25-26 im New York. After these events, there will be call for WG and the game will restart.

I think it is important for AP Internet community to pay attention to these moves, which will definitely impact y/our government and business, since this is not only about ICANN, but any "Internet Governance" matters of common interest including, perhaps, anti-spam control or international traffic issues.

So, with this BoF, I like to discuss possible "actions" from AP community regarding how to cooperate and participate in these moves.

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