<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><DIV>One recommendation of the <SPAN style="">Working Group on Internet Governance in its final report was the establishment of a forum mechanism for dealing with governance issues. This recommendation has received generally positive responses, but, in international negotiations, "the devil is in the details." This will clearly be one of the issues to be addressed in PrepCom 3 and later.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>To help explore this issue, the Internet Governance Project has issued a new analytical paper that <SPAN style="">discusses six factors that need to be taken into account in working out the details of a forum mechanism.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The IGP paper is available at </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">www.internetgovernance.org</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The analysis is based on a wide degree of experience with forums at the international level and is intended to inform the negotiations.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">John</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">John R. Mathiason</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Adjunct Professor of International Relations</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Syracuse University</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>