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4 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from November
2015</title>
5 <description>Entries from November
2015</description>
6 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/
</link>
10 <title>TISA - nok en problematisk og hemmelig handelsavtale
</title>
11 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TISA___nok_en_problematisk_og_hemmelig_handelsavtale.html
</link>
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13 <pubDate>Thu,
5 Nov
2015 09:
20:
00 +
0100</pubDate>
14 <description><p
>Norge er aktiv i Trade in Services Agreement-forhandlingene, og
15 regjeringen forteller at
16 «
<a href=
"https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/utenrikssaker/handelspolitikk/tisa/id2403335/
">TISA
17 vil sikre norske tjenesteeksportører forutsigbar og
18 ikke-diskriminerende adgang til utenlandske tjenestemarkeder
</a
>».
19 Det er mulig at det stemmer. Men den gjør mye mer enn det. Avtalen
20 forhandles i hemmelighet, og kun takket være
21 <a href=
"https://wikileaks.org/tisa/
">Wikileaks
</a
> er
22 utkast og biter kjent i offentligheten. Det som er blitt kjent er
23 for eksempel at TISA kan
24 <a href=
"https://www.techdirt.com/articles/
20150604/
06324931218/tisa-agreement-might-outlaw-governments-mandating-open-source-software-many-situations.shtml
">blokkere
25 myndigheter fra å kreve bruk av fri programvare i mange
26 situasjoner
</a
>, hvilket vil fjerne muligheten vår til å ha kontroll
27 over egne datasystemer i slike tilfeller. Den kan også
28 <a href=
"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
2015/
05/tisa-yet-another-leaked-treaty-youve-never-heard-makes-secret-rules-internet
">blokkere
29 Norges mulighet til å holde kontroll med overføring av
30 personinformasjon ut av landet
</a
>, hvilket Snowden-bekreftelsene har
31 dokumentert er svært problematisk.
33 <p
>Jeg ble derfor veldig glad da jeg i dag ble tipset i dag om at det
34 allerede finnes en aktiv organisasjon,
35 <a href=
"http://www.folkeaksjonenmottisa.no/
">Folkeaksjonen mot
36 TISA
</a
>, som jobber for å hindre at Norge signerer på TISA-avtalen.
37 Her må alle gode krefter jobbe sammen. Jeg skal sende dem litt
38 penger, og se om jeg har kapasitet til å bidra med mer.
</p
>
43 <title>Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?
</title>
44 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Pentagon_deciding_the_Norwegian_negotiating_position_on_Internet_governance_.html
</link>
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46 <pubDate>Tue,
3 Nov
2015 13:
40:
00 +
0100</pubDate>
47 <description><p
>In Norway, all government offices are required by law to keep a
48 list of every document or letter arriving and leaving their offices.
49 Internal notes should also be documented. The document list (called a mail
50 journal -
"postjournal
" in Norwegian) is public information and thanks
51 to the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (Offentleglova) the mail
52 journal is available for everyone. Most offices even publish the mail
53 journal on their web pages, as PDFs or tables in web pages. The state-level offices even have a shared web based search service (called
54 <a href=
"https://www.oep.no/
">Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal -
55 OEP
</a
>) to make it possible to search the entries in the list. Not
56 all journal entries show up on OEP, and the search service is hard to
57 use, but OEP does make it easier to find at least some interesting
58 journal entries .
</p
>
60 <p
>In
2012 I came across a document in the mail journal for the
61 Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications on OEP that
62 piqued my interest. The title of the document was
63 "<a href=
"https://www.oep.no/search/resultSingle.html?journalPostId=
4192362">Internet
64 Governance and how it affects national security
</a
>" (Norwegian:
65 "Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet
"). The
66 document date was
2012-
05-
22, and it was said to be sent from the
67 "Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations
". I asked for a
68 copy, but my request was rejected with a reference to a legal clause said to authorize them to reject it
69 (
<a href=
"http://lovdata.no/lov/
2006-
05-
19-
16/§
20">offentleglova §
20,
70 letter c
</a
>) and an explanation that the document was exempt because
71 of foreign policy interests as it contained information related to the
72 Norwegian negotiating position, negotiating strategies or similar. I
73 was told the information in the document related to the ongoing
74 negotiation in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The
75 explanation made sense to me in early January
2013, as a ITU
76 conference in Dubay discussing Internet Governance
77 (
<a href=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#World_Conference_on_International_Telecommunications_2012_
.28WCIT-
12.29">World
78 Conference on International Telecommunications - WCIT-
12</a
>) had just
80 <a href=
"http://www.digi.no/kommentarer/
2012/
12/
18/tvil-om-usas-rolle-pa-teletoppmote
">reportedly
81 in chaos
</a
> when USA walked out of the negotiations and
25 countries
82 including Norway refused to sign the new treaty. It seemed
83 reasonable to believe talks were still going on a few weeks later.
84 Norway was represented at the ITU meeting by two authorities, the
85 <a href=
"http://www.nkom.no/
">Norwegian Communications Authority
</a
>
86 and the
<a href=
"https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/sd/
">Ministry of
87 Transport and Communications
</a
>. This might be the reason the letter
88 was sent to the ministry. As I was unable to find the document in the
89 mail journal of any Norwegian UN mission, I asked the ministry who had
90 sent the document to the ministry, and was told that it was the Deputy
91 Permanent Representative with the Permanent Mission of Norway in
94 <p
>Three years later, I was still curious about the content of that
95 document, and again asked for a copy, believing the negotiation was
97 <a href=
"https://mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914
">I
98 asked both the Ministry of Transport and Communications as the
99 receiver
</a
> and
100 <a href=
"https://mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p
">asked
101 the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva as the sender
</a
> for a
102 copy, to see if they both agreed that it should be withheld from the
103 public. The ministry upheld its rejection quoting the same law
104 reference as before, while the permanent mission rejected it quoting a
106 (
<a href=
"http://lovdata.no/lov/
2006-
05-
19-
16/§
20">offentleglova §
20
107 letter b
</a
>), claiming that they were required to keep the
108 content of the document from the public because it contained
109 information given to Norway with the expressed or implied expectation
110 that the information should not be made public. I asked the permanent
111 mission for an explanation, and was told that the document contained
112 an account from a meeting held in the Pentagon for a limited group of NATO
113 nations where the organiser of the meeting did not intend the content
114 of the meeting to be publicly known. They explained that giving me a
115 copy might cause Norway to not get access to similar information in
116 the future and thus hurt the future foreign interests of Norway. They
117 also explained that the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was not
118 the author of the document, they only got a copy of it, and because of
119 this had not listed it in their mail journal.
</p
>
121 <p
>Armed with this
122 knowledge I asked the Ministry to reconsider and asked who was the
123 author of the document, now realising that it was not same as the
124 "sender
" according to Ministry of Transport and Communications. The
125 ministry upheld its rejection but told me the name of the author of
126 the document. According to
127 <a href=
"https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/unga69_rapport1/id2001204/
">a
128 government report
</a
> the author was with the Permanent Mission of
129 Norway in New York a bit more than a year later (
2014-
09-
22), so I
130 guessed that might be the office responsible for writing and sending
131 the report initially and
132 <a href=
"https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/mote_2012_i_pentagon_om_itu
">asked
133 them for a copy
</a
> but I was obviously wrong as I was told that the
134 document was unknown to them and that the author did not work there
135 when the document was written. Next, I asked the Permanent Mission of
136 Norway in Geneva and the Foreign Ministry to reconsider and at least
137 tell me who sent the document to Deputy Permanent Representative with
138 the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva. The Foreign Ministry also
139 upheld its rejection, but told me that the person sending the document
140 to Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was the defence attaché with
141 the Norwegian Embassy in Washington. I do not know if this is the
142 same person as the author of the document.
</p
>
144 <p
>If I understand the situation correctly, someone capable of
145 inviting selected NATO nations to a meeting in Pentagon organised a
146 meeting where someone representing the Norwegian defence attaché in
147 Washington attended, and the account from this meeting is interpreted
148 by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to expose Norways
149 negotiating position, negotiating strategies and similar regarding the
150 ITU negotiations on Internet Governance. It is truly amazing what can
151 be derived from mere meta-data.
</p
>
153 <p
>I wonder which NATO countries besides Norway attended this meeting?
154 And what exactly was said and done at the meeting? Anyone know?
</p
>
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