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<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ian <br>My vote is a YES<br>Shaila Rao Mistry<br><div> </div><font size="2"></font><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><font size="2">moments of joy .........are the essence of life </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);">live in the moment........for only this is yours !!</span></font></span></p><font size="2"> </font><p><font size="2"> </font></p><p></p><p><span><font size="2"></font></span></p> <p> </p><div><div style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"><font face="comic sans ms"><strong><div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(127, 0, 127);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: comic sans ms;"><font face="comic sans ms"><strong></strong></font></span> </div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: comic sans ms;"><font face="comic sans
ms"><strong></strong></font></span> </div></strong></font></div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ian Peter <ian.peter@ianpeter.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> governance@lists.cpsr.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:28:13 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [governance] CONSENSUS CALL - IGF ROLE<br></font><br>
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which, depending on the flow of the consultations, may be delivered with or
separately to the statement on the IGF review.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Please indicate YES or NO in response. If responding no and
can articulate why, we may be able to accommodate suggestions even at this late
stage.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Internet Governance Caucus is of the view that the IGF should
continue beyond its first mandated period of five years.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are two clear, and relatively distinct, mandates of the IGF
- first, regarding public policy functions, as a forum for
multistakeholder policy dialogue, and second, regarding capacity building. Both
aspects of the IGF's role need to be strengthened.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Especially, one role (for instance, capacity building) should not be
promoted to the exclusion of the other (policy related role). If the IGF is
assessed not to be sufficiently contributing to its one or the other principal
roles, adequate measures should be considered to improve its effectivenesses
vis-a-vis that role. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is important that IGF remains open to addressing all issues that are
in the IG space, no matter how controversial. Very likely, the more
controversial an issue, the more appropriate it may be to bring it to the IGF
where inputs from a diverse range of stakeholders can be sought.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deliberations at the IGF can be used as inputs for global Internet
policy making, which will help make policy-making processes more participative
and democratic.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We congratulate the IGF secretariat on doing exemplary work in the last
few years, However for this success to be built on, the IGF should be assured
stable and sufficient public funding to be able to carry its functions
effectively, and impartially in global public interest. To this end we believe
it is important that no other UN organization gets involved in the IGF's management.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ian Peter</span></font></p>
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