Participación en el IGF 2007

Monica Abalo Laforgia

Participó en el marco del ISOC IGF Ambassador´s Program

Gabriel Adonaylo

Gabriel Adonaylo es miembro activo del Directorio del Capitulo Argentina de Internet Society y fue seleccionado por ISOC en el marco del IGF Ambassador´s Program . Es esta su segunda participación en un IGF ya que en su edición anterior que se realizara en Atenas en el año 2006 fue designado como uno de los representantes de América Latina en una de las Sesiones Principales.

En esta oportunidad, Adonaylo ha formado parte de un panel de especialistas orientado a Mejores Prácticas en IXPs (Puntos de Intercambio de Tráfico por sus siglas en inglés). El workshop, que fuera organizado por ISOC, contó con la presencia de representantes de África y América Latina. Las exposiciones estuvieron enfocadas desde los aspectos más generales tales como el despliegue de IXPs en dichas regiones hasta situaciones particulares por las que han transitados los IXPs de países específicos.

Olga Cavalli

Olga Cavalli concurrió en su carácter de miembro del Grupo Asesor del Secretario General de Naciones Unidas para el Foro de Gobernanza de Internet, habiendo estado involucrada en todo lo relacionado con dicho Grupo.

Además participó en las siguientes actividades:

- Presentación en el Simposio Giganet de Paper sobre Mecanismos de Internet Governance en Latinoamérica El documento presentado e información sobre el Simposio se pueden consultar en:
http://www.igloo.org/community.igloo?r0=community&r0_script=/scripts/folder/view.script&r0_pathinfo=%2F%7B58dacb33-31ea-4219-9124-89a75ffe71d0%7D%2FResearch%20Annual%20Symposium&r0_output=xml

- Participación en los siguientes Workshops:

- Public Policy on the Internet: What is it? Who Makes it?
- ICT and Security Challenges - A selection of Case studies
- Toward a Development Agenda for Internet Governance
- Broadening the Domain Name Space

- Participación en la presentación del libro "The Power of Ideas: Internet Governance in a Global Multistakeholder Environment", publicado por el Gobierno de Alemania en ocasión de la Segunda Reunión del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet, en el cual es autora de un capítulo. El texto completo del libro se puede consultar en:
http://medienservice.land-der-ideen.de/MEDIA/65534,0.pdf

Antonio A. Martino

Participé de la presentación del quaderno Gli aspetti giuridici di Internet, a mi cuidado. Participé en las conversaciones ítalo - brasileñas con respecto a la redacción de una Carta de Derechos en Internet, donde se resolvió hacer una reunión previa al próximo Forum en Italia al fin de definir algunos criterios. Es interesante resaltar que el Ministro de Cultura brasileño Gilberto Gil invoco la carta de Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea - que es una realidad. La idea es buena porque podria nacer del Parlamento Europeo una directiva sobre Derechos fundamentales en Internet que luego fuera distribuida.

Finalmente no se debe olvidar que hay una iniciativa de Google ante Naciones Unidas para crear un "Global Privacy Counsel". Que es menos de una carta de derecho pero mas del cero que hay ahora.

Christian O'Flaherty

Internet Topology and Terminology

Proponents; Packet Clearing House Partners
* Afilias (Global Registry Services),
* AIMS (Private company providing Internet infrastructure and facilities in Arabic countries),
* African Regional Internet Registry (AfriNIC),
* Latin American and Caribbean Internet Registry (LACNIC)
* American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN),
* Number Ressource Organization (NRO),
Office of Utilities Regulation of the Government of Jamaica

Additional Information
This Best Practice Forum is intended to demonstrate the global commonality of experience and understanding of the Internet's basic topology and terminology. Speakers representing Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America will relate their experiences in dealing with challenges of common understanding of the underlying principles of Internet technology and governance, and discuss ways of arriving at shared terminology and meaningful discussion of these complex issues.
This Best Practice Forum is intended to provide an educational, factual backdrop to the policy debates which will be the focus of the IGF. Many people in the civil society and intergovernmental spheres, whose interest in Internet governance is relatively recent, are potentially disadvantaged in fully participating in the debate by the abstruse technical terminology and concepts. This workshop will serve as a layperson's introduction to the topology of the Internet, providing definitions and explanations for key terms like transit, peering, hot-potato, exchange point, root and top-level domain name server, routing and forwarding, and the International Standards Organization's seven-layer protocol model.
The proposers of this forum believe that participation in the first IGF was, though vigorous, hampered by a virtual "tower of Babel," in which many participants had difficulty finding common ground not because of differences of opinion, but simply because of a lack of shared understanding of the terms of art. We would like to see new entrants into the community enabled to participate fully and confidently, rather than being intimidated into silence by the barrage of new terminology. This offer should not be seen as patronizing on the part of the technical community... Quite the opposite: the technical community recognizes better than anyone how challenging entry into this field can be, and in the spirit in which the Internet was constructed, seeks to give everyone an equal chance to participate in building the global network of the future.
We believe that a basic introduction of the sort proposed herein is needed at not just the second IGF, but at every future IGF. This type of introductory workshop is de rigeur and provided as a matter of course at every Network Operators Group and Regional Internet Registry meeting, several dozen times each year.
Proposed Program
This forum is proposed to fit within a 90-minute slot, as follows:
20 minutes - Nishal Goburdhan, speaking on global Internet topology, from a background in academic and commercial network operations in Africa and globally
5 minutes - Discussion led by Bill Woodcock
20 minutes - Christian O'Flaherty, speaking on Internet economics and terminology, from a background in NGO and commercial network operations in Latin America
5 minutes - Discussion led by Bill Woodcock
10 minutes - Richard Lamb, speaking on the structure of and interrelationships between the Internet governance organizations, from a background in Internet governance and intergovernmental affairs
30 minutes - Cross-speaker and participant dialog
Proposing Organizations
This Best Practice Forum is being proposed by a global coalition of organizations that provide technical expertise and services in the communications sector, and share a common desire that participants in the IGF process have ready availability to, and a shared understanding of, the technical underpinnings of the Internet and the terminology used to describe them. These organizations include:
* Afilias, a for-profit domain-name infrastructure services corporation, incorporated in Ireland;
* AIMS, a commercial enterprise headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, providing critical Internet infrastructure and facilities in Arabic countries;
* AfriNIC, the not-for-profit African Regional Internet Registry, providing bottom-up Internet governance in the network number space from offices throughout the African continent;
* LACNIC, the not-for-profit Regional Internet Registry providing critical Internet number resources in Latin America and portions of the Caribbean;
* ARIN, the not-for-profit Regional Internet Registry governed by stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and parts of the Caribbean;
* The Number Resources Organization, or NRO, the association of the five Regional Internet Registries;
* The Office of Utilities Regulation of the Government of Jamaica; and
* Packet Clearing House, a not-for-profit NGO supporting affordable and reliable critical communications infrastructure globally, with offices in London, San Francisco, and Kathmandu.
The composition of the proposing group ensures its adherence to multi-stakeholder principles. Members represent the governmental, NGO, civil society, Internet governance, and commercial sectors, from both developing and developed nations, and the northern and southern hemispheres. The three speakers represent three ethnicities and four continents, if you count origin and domicile separately.

Jorge Plano

Fue expositor en el Workshop organizado por la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (UIT/ITU) titulado "Making Accessibility a Reality in Emerging Technologies and the Web" dónde hizo una presentación sobre "Web accessibility: Standards and rewards". Las presentaciones del Workshop están disponibles en:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/accessibility/index.html