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<td>Re: CSTD WG on EC - input on mechanisms required</td>
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<td>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:09:43 +0530</td>
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<td>Parminder <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<font face="Verdana">Dear Phil<br>
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Thanks for beginning this important exercise.<br>
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Respectfully, I will like to point two issues with your
exercise framing email below, which has already led to some
confusion in some civil society groups to which it was
forwarded. <br>
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Firstly, the agreed language of the ToR of the group is to
identify existing 'international mechanism' that may be
addressing the listed issues and not to identify 'where
mechanism of enhanced cooperation exists'....<br>
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The distinction is important, as you have seen during the
debates, because there is no unanimity yet on what can be
called as 'enhanced cooperation' and many WGE members have
said that in their opinion 'enhanced cooperation' has not yet
taken off. To quote from India's response, for instance.
"Enhanced Cooperation, as envisaged in Paras 68 and 69 of the
Tunis Agenda, has not been realized." There are many other
similar submissions. Your framing will put those who think so
in a very difficult situation. Would filling in anything at
all about some international mechanism mean that they admit
that EC is taking place? Or, alternatively, to be safe,
should</font><font face="Verdana"> they</font><font
face="Verdana"> simply not participate in this exercise. <br>
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It is therefore best to stick to the exact language of the
ToR, which you know was negotiated over a long time.</font><font
face="Verdana">I am enclosing the group's ToR for easy
reference.<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana">Secondly, out of the four tasks for
the correspondence group, task (d) which is to "attempt to
identify the gaps" is the most important one, and earlier
tasks (a), (b) and (c) are to be undertaken with a view to be
able to contribute to (d)... This sequence and hierarchy is
also clear from the agreed ToR which links point (d) directly
with the recommendations that the group has to come up with.
Focussing on "gaps" is also consistent with the original
mandate given by UN GA to the WGEC, that is the real purpose
here.<br>
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However, your framing email below, while mentioning points
(a), (b) and (c) from the ToR, completely omits point (d),
which is the most important one, and to which others must lead
towards. It is important that against each issue category,
group members are able to make comments about the nature of
the gaps they see. Otherwise we will simply have some listing
against each category by those who think an issue is being
addressed by so and so, but those who think there is a gap
there will not be able to make any comment. For instance, I
can see that IGF will be listed against each category (it
being a different matter that it is universally known IGF does
not "address" any public policies in the sense of developing
public policies which is the issue under the EC rubric). <br>
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Just trying to make the work of the CG more purposeful and
useful for final recommendations of the WGEC. <br>
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Thanks and best regards<br>
<br>
parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 08 January 2014 02:27
AM, Private Sector Phil Rushton wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear Colleague</div>
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<div>First many thanks for volunteering to assist in
identifying where the mechanisms of enhanced co-operation
exists, and second, apologies for the delay in getting the
base text to you. The information that is being sought
(and which is described below) should be provided to me by
January 31<font size="1"><sup>st</sup></font>. This will
allow for a second round of clarification, if required,
prior to the information being submitted to the CSTD WG
meeting in February.</div>
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<div>The attached document has had its 200+ policy issues
grouped into 24 broad areas (listed in column B), and it
is against these broad areas that your input is sought.
The input that is being sought in these various broad
areas is to:</div>
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18pt; " type="a">
<li style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">Use the
identified broad areas of international public policy
issues pertaining to the Internet in the attached
spreadsheet that has been developed in the second
meeting of the WGEC (and since updated). <i>(NB)
Additional issues may be added to the identified
public policy issues if agreed by the WGEC</i><i>.</i></li>
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<div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align:
justify; ">And </div>
<div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align:
justify; ">(b) list where there are existing international
mechanisms addressing the issues in the list</div>
<div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;
text-align: justify; ">(c) identify the status of
mechanisms, if any, whether they are addressing the issues</div>
<div>Please provide evidence or examples of where some or
all stakeholders in their broadest sense (Government,
Industry, Academia, Business and Civil Society) have
engaged in working together on that issue. </div>
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<div>The detail that is being sought, where it is known, is
as follows:</div>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
36pt; ">
<li>the name of the mechanism (in the widest sense this
includes policy spaces or forums); </li>
<li>the stakeholders involved, </li>
<li>details of any discussions, or where such details can
be read, </li>
<li>dates started, completed; </li>
<li>current status of mechanism discussion, etc.</li>
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<div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="2">Regards<font
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</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Phil Rushton</b></font></font></div>
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