As participants in the technical community, we would like to raise awareness of this development and its attempt to change the multistakeholder model of Internet governance. The U.N. Tech Envoy's European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) statement is a significant step back from the agreements made at WSIS, the WSIS Tunis Agenda, and the WSIS+10 Review Outcome Document.
The technical community is not part of civil society and it has never been; it is widely recognized in the WSIS process, which defined the roles and functions of each stakeholder engaged in the development of the Internet.
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