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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 16 October 2012 12:57 PM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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SNIP<br>
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<li>For the ITU statement, William Drake is facilitating it
and is proposing a text focusing on substantive issues,
which will be submitted to the ITU public comment process on
3 November.<br>
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<li>For the Internet governance principles, Wolfgang
Kleinwächter's current proposal is that we use the existing
text that APC and others worked on for the Council of
Europe, which is this one: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199">http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199</a>.</li>
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All,<br>
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I remain sceptical of how this exercise is going to be done and
concluded. for a long time I believed that we were looking at
substantive Internet principles but now I see we are only taking
about procedural principles for IG. First of all I think we need to
do substantive principles first, and the IRP document is the most
extensively worked on. Indeed there has been a discussion on this
list to use that as the base doc. I dont think we would be able to
do a new document of procedural principles on IG in this short time.
There are deep differences involved, as for instance the recent
discussion on the IGC list on democracy versus multistakeholderism
showed. It will be wrong to roadroller these differences and come up
with a document in this short while. To give you a feel of what I am
talking about - I will like to put democratic before
multistakeholder in any procedural document on IG - which btw is
meant to cover local to national to global levels. Do all agree to
this proposition here? Also I will like to speak about funding
issues around IG institutions, and need for neutral public funding
for them. There are many such issues. I am happy to discuss them,
here and/or at the workshop. But lets not hurry with something in
the name of civil society. <br>
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On the other hand, if we just want to give a list of preachments to
the ITU on how should be conduct its business, I am game for it.
That is much more doable. <br>
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Jeremy, can we have a list of people on this elist, and those who
are now confirmed to attend the meeting. Thanks.<br>
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parminder <br>
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In addition:<br>
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<li>If you have been offered funding for your hotel stay during
Best Bits, please reply to confirm whether you will be needing
this, and whether you will be staying at the Days Hotel (in
which case we can pay the hotel directly for those nights) or
elsewhere.</li>
<li>If you will be attending Best Bits in person but have not
yet re-confirmed your registration by completing the form at <a
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href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/registration/">http://bestbits.igf-online.net/registration/</a>,
please take one minute now do do that.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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