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<div>Work of the 1net dialogue shall be divided in two
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- Brazilian summit (that part of the coalition/dialogue,
particularly business, remains calling meeting). For
that, the dialogue, following our move in Bali, is also
suggesting to have 3 representatives from each
stakeholder (civil society, business, technical
community), to identify 3 representatives to participate
in the preparations. <br>
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I don't in any way support the 1net dialogue appointing itself as an
interface between civil society and the Brazil summit. Thankfully
it seems that the point has been made on the list that we have
already appointed our own representatives to engage with Brazil on
the summit, thank-you-very-much. We should not allow the
misunderstanding to arise that 1net had any part in this
appointment.<br>
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- Overall dialogue, were the first step will be
exchanges to establish a dialogue (or 1net) steering
committee to help prepare any materials for
discussion/coordinate with the broader community. On my
perception, reaching balance on this steering committee
will be vital to assess our level of engagement in the
dialogue. The issue of representativeness of CS will
knock again on our doors.<br>
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So this ties in with the previous proposal (see my mail from
yesterday) for us to quickly work with other civil society networks
to form a loose peak structure that would nominate civil society
representatives to other Internet governance processes.[0]<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">- <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">pointing
representatives</span> from each stakeholder group (business,
tech and civil soc) for the<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">
steering committee and for the conference working group. </span>Please,
note that governments are not part of the list of stakeholders
involved in the dialogue/1net. (ps. I'm just reporting, a dialogue
without governments is not my perfect view of a coalition)<br>
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And the website misrepresents this. It says, implicitly speaking
for the members of the dialogue, "Together - as global users,
industry, civil society, governments, academics, and technical
organizations - we are deeply committed to strengthening the
distributed multi-stakeholder Internet governance framework to serve
our next generations."<br>
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There are occasions when civil society has been fairly united in
pulling out from a platform that doesn't serve our interests - for
example the OECD Communiqué on Internet policy making, and the EU
Licenses for Europe initiative. I am not disagreeing with those who
say "wait and see", but my current inclination remains that we
should leave 1net to the private sector and tech community, who will
certainly overwhelm our influence in any case.<br>
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[0] A further reason for this being stated by Michael Gurstein in a
different thread:<br>
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<pre wrap="">that to all intents and purposes CS in its current form in the IG is incapable of being an effective "stakeholder" and accepting the implications of that for the overall MS model. The implications of taking this latter position is that if an adherence to MSism is so important for various of the actors involved then some significant efforts/resources will need to be put into making CS a workable, effective and legitimate partner.</pre>
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