The report also points that the majority of responses value the decentralized open eco-system of Internet governance, comprised by 150 governmental and non-governmental organizations of the technical and private sector. Nevertheless, other responses point to the need to develop new mechanisms in order to face new emerging issues. The most radical proposal of enhanced cooperation mechanisms, in line with those already put forward in 2005 during WSIS, develop the need for an international organization, under the institutional umbrella of the UN, for the supervision of public policies pertaining the Internet, as well as an international board to supervise ICANN. (Initiative proposed by IT for Change, an Indian NGO). The government of Brazil, in line with the actions it has deployed in the last months since the surveillance strategies deployed using cryptography on the Internet, points to the need to develop a new platform, to deal with the new problems that today are out of scope of the current institutional mechanisms of already existing organizations.
One of the most analyzed mechanisms was the IGF. The government of Brazil made an important distinction between the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and enhanced cooperation as distinct processes. Whereas enhanced cooperation is a “policy–making space”, the IGF is a “policy dialogue space”. The IGF may serve as a ground for future discussions on enhanced cooperation, but according to this stakeholder, this should not be considered as the only forum.
