<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div><br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2014, at 11:31 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;">We need to first remind the LOG, no, civil society wants to directly talk to LOG</span></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div>Once again, please, some participants from two civil society networks who were in Bali want to talk directly to the LOG rather than through the people they put on the 1net SC to, um, talk to the LOG (and who indeed have asked the 1net to communicate for them to the LOG).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I would request IGC and BB list to take a vote from the membership whether civil society wants an independent status and direct relationship to the Brazil meeting, or do it only as part of 1Net. This is urgently required.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I agree, this has been going on for two months now. Some folks saying this is what IGC and BB folks in Bali agreed and that’s our final position, others saying other things, and most IGC members and BB subscribers (there are no members) unaware, unconcerned, or in any event not weighing in. It’s causing continuing confusion in the LOG, the 1Net SC, other stakeholder groups, etc. So whether there’s rough consensus that the position is unchanged or changed in light of the evolution since Bali, let’s please get clear on it so the communication with others stops causing confusion.</div><div><br></div><div>I am a IGC member and BB subscriber and I favor working through the 1net SC as the Brazilians have asked. I’m also a 1net SC member representing academia.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div></body></html>