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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/12/13 15:45, William Drake wrote:<br>
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For the second time I endorse Anriette’s proposal but with Adam’s
additional request for some clarifications, e.g. what this SC
would be doing, on who’s behalf. In addition, to the extent that
there’s a claim of interest representation, it’d be good to
understand the relationship to the IGC, in which the same actors
are gathered. Would for example BB be expecting a slot on the
1net coordination group alongside the IGC? Alternatively, if BB
is saying that it doesn’t accept the 1net mechanism as an
interface with the Brazilian conference planning process and will
maintain its own independent relationship via the 4 liaisons,
perhaps it shouldn’t be requesting one of the five slots, right?
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<div>Friendly message, just wondering if this stuff’s been thought
through off line but not stated yet.</div>
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We are not really doing anything on anyone's behalf, just
facilitating the participants' independent engagement in IG
processes on a volunteer basis; so that's why the energy being
diverted into this issue is so misplaced. Based on the procedures
wiki that was launched ahead of the Bali meeting
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/">http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/</a>), there are proposals for
the steering committee to be able to do various things, mostly quite
trivial, which you can find by just searching for "steering" in that
page.<br>
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One of those proposals was that we would offer a service to compile
expressions of interest received for nominations to other groups,
and to post those back to the main list for approval by consensus.
But even this was received with suspicion, so we stepped away from
it, and meanwhile a new joint civil society group has come together
to do essentially the same thing (since, one way or another, it
needs doing).<br>
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Nonetheless, this proposed procedure (and all the others) remain up
for discussion. But it makes no sense to rush this and to divert
our limited, volunteer energies into developing a perfect set of
processes for Best Bits when there are more important substantive
issues to be dealing with related to the Brazil meeting, enhanced
cooperation process, and so on. At least, I, for one, don't have
time to do both, and I know which I'd rather be working on.<br>
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So that's why I favour Anriette's proposal, which is more realistic
and achieveable, over Michael's which I feel displays a little
unnecessarily paranoia about the interim steering committee's powers
and motives.<br>
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