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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 03 December 2013 03:46 PM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/12/13 01:11, parminder wrote:<br>
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My preferred option is to make BB into a membership based
organisation. My impression at its inaugural meeting was that it
was supposed to emerge as a membership based body, where serious
and committed civil society organisations/ individuals will like
to work together in peace and with focus, away from the general
din of civil society conversations.<br>
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Thanks, that's really much more helpful. </blockquote>
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This just repeats and expands what I said at Bali, which point -
about a membership based network - was also captured by another
member making closing remarks (Al Alegre) .<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:529DAF97.5060401@ciroap.org" type="cite">We
now know that your main objection is that you want a more tightly
institutionalised Best Bits, closer to an organisation</blockquote>
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No more than Internet Governance Caucus can be considered as an
organisation... Dont think most consider it as an organisation.
Organisation is not the right word... Network is better - or maybe a
network with some organisational features enable some clear and
specific functions..<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:529DAF97.5060401@ciroap.org" type="cite"> than
to a loose platform or network, </blockquote>
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My email also gave the second option - loose platform - but then
with the limitations about what it can do... Structure and
outputting is a kind of a package...<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:529DAF97.5060401@ciroap.org" type="cite">and
you have now described what you are looking for specifically and
clearly.<br>
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Well, I thought I had said enough earlier as well.... But good now
it has gone through... <br>
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However it does seem fair to say that most others don't want those
changes, at the current point in time. This came across both at
the meeting in Bali, and in responses here.<br>
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I am not so sure.... I think more people will prefer a network with
clear membership, and membership driven decision making, facilitated
by co-cos or a steering committee... But then if the decision to
make it into a platform is to be taken, it should also clearly
specify its functions, limits and structures...<br>
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thanks<br>
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parminder <br>
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Can we therefore park this disagreement and revisit it once the
interim steering committee have issued their 2013 report, that
Anriette called for in her proposal? This will at least give
people (you and others) more background to inform their decision
about whether Best Bits should change into an organisation with
specific membership criteria, charter, etc.<br>
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Meanwhile we can also try to limit straying into acting as a de
facto organisation, though I still contend that there may be some
actions that we can take, beyond sign-on statements, that the
community should be able to endorse us doing by overall consensus,
without requiring all the additional organisational baggage.<br>
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Let's take the heat down a notch - your latest reply has helped -
and we will try to be sensitive to the differences between
organisation that you have described.<br>
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