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The original plan was to have two small drafting groups for our two
output documents, which a core of interested participants could join
to come up with some zero-draft text as a starting point for
discussions in Baku.<br>
<br>
As things haven't worked out that way so far, it has been suggested
we bring the discussion back onto the main list. To that end, I am
starting two threads, for discussion of the two statements. I'm
beginning with the ITU statement.<br>
<br>
I do not consider myself an expert on the ITU (certainly not
compared to some of you), so I am not going to propose any actual
text. But in general terms, it is hoped that the statement would by
a strong and unified civil society position to which most of us
subscribe, not only pushing back against the ITU's mission creep and
pointing out its deficits with respect to the WSIS process criteria
(openness, multi-stakeholderism, etc), but being quite specific
about the issues on the table for WCIT. What issues do we already
know are the key ones for our members or constituents?<br>
<br>
So, please use this thread to discuss ideas, and once they are more
progressed, some draft text could go into a (currently empty) pad at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/ITU">http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/ITU</a>.<br>
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