<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Sep 1, 2014, at 11:38 AM, joy <<a href="mailto:joy@apc.org">joy@apc.org</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hi - I agree with the idea of a joint statement making the IGF
permanent<br>
However, I would point out that yesterday at the Best Bits meeting
we agreed to make a statement saying more than just that the IGF
should be made permanent - we also were to preparea a statement on
other issues and a smaller group had started notes on these during
the meeting on the meeting etherpad
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/NnbQgXIv8Y">https://etherpad.mozilla.org/NnbQgXIv8Y</a> at lines 330-339 <br>
These still need more work - a small group volunteered to work on
developing these into a statement that would be sent to this list
for comment and a call for support (myself, Dixie, Jeremy, Carolina
- maybe one or two others?)<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Support seemed almost unanimous for sending a statement on the permanent mandate of the IGF, but I'm not sure whether people realised they would be supporting a broader statement covering other points (such as "concern at the number of new processes", which seems contentious to me, although I personally agree with it). Can we have two separate outputs? ie. I think there would be value in issuing a consensus statement on the renewal of the IGF, and putting the other paragraphs into an optional sign-on statement if they are more contentious and might detract from the unanimity of the message about extension of the IGF.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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