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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks, Jeanette for pointing out this. My opinion was that the statement will serve as an operations guide for face2face negociations. That it will serve to convey a sort of fundamentals to which the caucus holds. That these fundamentals were to underlie negotiations and serve as objectives for the input of IGC members..</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Anyhow, my suggestion will be to reinforce the last paragraph. I have this for now..</DIV>
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<P class=western style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; FONT-STYLE: normal" align=left><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Baskerville, sans-serif"><FONT size=5> The issues mentioned are not just concerns and desires, but are actually objectives for which we intend to work. We hope that as our contributions towards achieving these goals come into the sessions, they shall be supported and upheld. Once again we express our strong support for the IGF and for the mandate it was given by governments and other stakeholders</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Baskerville, sans-serif"><FONT size=5>, and stand ready to work with colleagues from all sectors to make the Tunis Agenda˘s vision a reality.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Lee McKnight <LMcKnigh@syr.edu><BR>To: William Drake <drake@hei.unige.ch>; governance@lists.cpsr.org; jeanette@wz-berlin.de<BR>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:39:03 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [governance] Caucus Statement: another proposal<BR><BR>
<DIV>Jeanette,<BR><BR>I was agreeing with you until you objected to CS groveling for<BR>resources, which ah, is what CS always does....especially since the<BR>responsible authority, the new sec gen, does have some say in resource<BR>allocation, and he claims multi-stakeholder interaction is a priority. <BR><BR><BR>Whether the statement is going anywhere or not, CS folks should be<BR>expressing concern about resource issues to those reponsible authorities<BR>even if no quick fix is available.<BR><BR>Lee<BR><BR>Prof. Lee W. McKnight<BR>School of Information Studies<BR>Syracuse University<BR>+1-315-443-6891office<BR>+1-315-278-4392 mobile<BR><BR>>>> jeanette@wz-berlin.de 10/26/2006 12:12 PM >>><BR><BR><BR>William Drake wrote:<BR>> Hi,<BR>> <BR>> There's not a lot of point in going around and around on this<BR>anymore, since<BR>> it seems clear we can't agree a joint position statement (best of<BR>luck to<BR>> our future coordinators
;-). But just for my own understanding of<BR>what<BR>> people are saying, could this be explained please:<BR>> <BR>>> From: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette@wz-berlin.de><BR>> <BR>>> Vittorio, I would agree with that approach. What I object to is to<BR>read<BR>>> a statement that sounds as if we are appealing to some higher<BR>authority.<BR>> <BR>>> From: Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu><BR>> <BR>>> This is not WSIS, this is not an intervention into an<BR>intergovernmental<BR>>> negotiation, and therefore the "appeal to authority" aspect is<BR>>> misplaced. I think we need a far more positive and constructive<BR>sense of<BR>> <BR>> I don't get the "appealing to authority" interpretation anymore than<BR>I did<BR>> the "protesting" interpretation. <BR><BR>Hi Bill, lets imagine you would talk to your giganet colleagues and you<BR><BR>wanted to convince them of something, would you
then write for example<BR><BR>"resources should be allocated to support this objective"? No, you <BR>wouldn't write that since you know there is nobody in Giganet who <BR>allocates any recourses. This is meant as a mere illustration of my<BR>point.<BR>jeanette<BR><BR><BR>The statement simply says 1) we think the<BR>> IGF should follow its mandate, annual conferences alone can't<BR>achieve that,<BR>> so we would welcome an opportunity for open dialogue on how it can be<BR>done;<BR>> 2) the AG and conference should be open and transparent; and 3) the<BR>IGF<BR>> should facilitate the formation of dynamic blah blah blahs. In what<BR>sense<BR>> are these positions groveling appeals to authority? Which passages<BR>do this?<BR>> I see them as flat statements of preference.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks,<BR>> <BR>> Bill<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ____________________________________________________________<BR>> You received
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