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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 22 October 2013 10:02 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>On 20/10/2013, at 12:31 PM, joy <<a
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<li>A <b>fluid working group</b> (to use one of our new
catchphrases) could work online to distill it down into a
shorter statement of principles, and get underway on that
now with the aim of making at least some further progress by
the time of our workshop on Thursday. Would you be willing
to be a focal point for the fluid working group?</li>
<li>For the longer-term, we could try to develop these
principles into a standard of our own, that we could apply
to various Internet governance institutions. During a
workshop yesterday on metrics of multi-stakeholderism, I
first raised this idea as a kind of "quality label" for
multi-stakeholder processes. As many people have noted
during this IGF already, everything from the IETF to ICANN
to the IGF is called a "multi-stakeholder process", yet they
are so very different. A <b>Best Bits "quality label" for
multi-stakeholder processes</b> could help to provide a
more useful benchmark for these processes than the WSIS
process criteria alone.</li>
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To be able to do any such kind of quality labelling, BB would itself
first have to follow very high quality processes. However at the f2f
meeting when some process issues were raised there were many people
labelling them as unneeded inflexibility and formalism. So, not
sure how we would resolve the apparent contradiction here.....<br>
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I do think that when people put themselves up for public roles,
especially in very political processes like the kind we all are
engaged in, they need to be held to very high levels of openness,
transparency, accountability and so on, and these things should not
be dismissed as unneeded formalism. Democratic public life has been
carefully imbued with a lot of such 'formalism' over the centuries
precisely because of this reason. <br>
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parminder <br>
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<div>Perhaps the same fluid working group could take on both
objectives in turn. What do people think?</div>
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