<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>hi,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>seems like a good idea.<DIV>i suggest that you, or someone, draft a statement that the rest of us can, hopefully, endorse (perhaps after a bit of discussion).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>a.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 26 jan 2006, at 09.35, Parminder wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P class="MsoPlainText"><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">For this purpose</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoPlainText"><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoPlainText"><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">1. we can submit a short statement to the Feb 1 meeting raising concerns on the issues of ITU membership for CS entities, and on its poor record on ‘open access’ principle recommended by WSIS outcome documents</SPAN><B style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">. We can ask for greater CS inclusiveness for ITU activities, and urge ITU to immediately apply open access principle to its documents, as a proof of its intention to implement WSIS in letter and spirit.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "></O:P></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoPlainText"><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoPlainText"><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">2. we can also use the period available till 30th to put a few posting to this effect on the open online forum for the forthcoming ITU meeting which will consider the reform agenda. (at <A href="http://www.itu.int/reform/index.html">http://www.itu.int/reform/index.html</A>)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>