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Hi all - just a note to hopefully assist with answering your
questions (I am co-chair of the correspondence group and assisting
Phil with this task).<br>
Marilia: The TOR of this are available here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396</a> - in
particular:<br>
5. The Correspondence Group will:<br>
(a) Review the identified international public policy issues
pertaining to the Internet in the<br>
spreadsheet that has been developed in the second meeting of the
WGEC.<br>
(NB) Additional issues may be added to the identified public policy
issues if agreed by the WGEC.<br>
(b) List where there are existing international mechanisms
addressing the issues in the list<br>
(c) Identify the status of mechanisms, if any, whether they are
addressing the issues<br>
(d) Attempt to identify the gaps in order to ascertain what type of
recommendations may be<br>
required to be drafted by the WGEC.<br>
6. Any issue that cannot reach consensus in the Correspondence Group
will be referred to the<br>
Working Group, with the options that represent the range of opinions
expressed in the<br>
Correspondence Group. The final decision on such issues will be made
by the WGEC.<br>
7. This Correspondence Group does not replace the WGEC and will not
take any decision pertaining to the mandate of WGEC.<br>
<br>
As you can see - the term "mechanisms" came from the TOR itself,
which were agreed by the working group last November.<br>
<br>
Jeremy - in relation to "gaps" - the intention was for this will be
the next step in the exercise (item (d)) once the initial steps (a)
- (c) have been completed. But by all means, if you consider that
there are gaps and wish to highlight these now, please do so.<br>
I will also respond on the mailing list of the correspondence
working group.<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Joy Liddicoat<br>
<br>
On 10/01/2014 4:53 p.m., Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> On 10/01/14 06:44, Marilia
Maciel wrote:<br>
>> Thank you for the information and for seeking input from
this broader group.<br>
>> I have not followed the work of the WGEC as closely as I
would like to, therefore I have a doubt regarding the framing of
this consultation you brought to our attention. The attached
e-mail asks to identify "mechanisms" (plural, and I read this is
fora) where enhanced cooperation exists.<br>
><br>
> You're right that this is incongruous, however Phil only
mentions "enhanced cooperation" in the introductory paragraph of
his email, which I take as an individual form of words from him,
rather than as part of the framing of the task for the
correspondence group that the WGEC has chosen. Below that -
presumably approved by the WGEC - it just talks about "examples of
where some or all stakeholders in their broadest sense…have
engaged in working together". We should probably couch any
response in terms that makes it clear that we are not necessarily
accepting that the above is an adequate or specific enough
definition of enhanced cooperation.<br>
><br>
> I also queried on the list as to why there was no scope for
the correspondence group to suggest ways of filling the gaps where
enhanced cooperation is not taking place. This seems to be a more
important issue. Why do you need to crowdsource the production of
a list of areas where there are no gaps? A single expert could do
that! The reason for a correspondence group, I would have
thought, would be to gather different opinions about the best way
of dealing with the areas where there are gaps. So I'm a bit
worried about where this process is going.<br>
><br>
> -- <br>
><br>
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