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George T. Willingmyre, P.E.GTW Associates

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

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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”

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/chronocontact/?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 playsa 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 shouldbe 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 frameworkcan 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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1) Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium / Web Foundation2) Steve Mutkoski, Microsoft, USA3) Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands4) Aslam Raffee, Sun Microsystems, South Africa5) James Love, Knowledge Ecology International6) 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, India11) Government of the United States of America12) Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer Updegrove LLP13) Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society, India

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IV-1 Yale Information Society Project

PROCEEDINGS From STANDARDS SUMMIThttp://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/News_&_Events/

Standards_Summit_Proceedings.pdf

AT YALE LAW SCHOOLHOSTED BY THE

YALE INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECTNovember 21, 2008

New Haven, CT

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IV-1 Yale Information Society Project

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/Standards_RecommendationsREV.pdfDevelop 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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IV-1 Yale Information Society Project

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