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<DIV><SPAN class=406344623-03102009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>As a
matter of fact, yes... Having a group of people with some detailed knowledge and
experience in an area such as this would seem to me to be a positive value...
The difficulty comes in if that group is not sufficiently diverse or
representative of the range of those with an interest in (interests in) the area
(i.e. "suitable"... which of course, has been the basis of my
critique/commentary on the IGF from the beginning.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Eric Dierker
[mailto:cogitoergosum@sbcglobal.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 14,
2009 11:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org; Michael
Gurstein<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [governance] FW: [IRP] Please provide your
input on the impact of the IGF<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>What do you mean by this paragraph. Are you stating that a
"suitable" cadre is a positive impact?<BR>--- On <B>Tue, 9/15/09,
Michael Gurstein <I><A
href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com> wrote:">gurstein@gmail.com></I></B>
wrote:</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=219070203-15092009>Rather the significance of the IGF should be
seen in terms of how it has directly and indirectly contributed to the
creation of a basis for concensus, a language for discussion, a
(suitable) cadre of informed people to carry on the discussion
(it is here where I have my issues with the current IGF but I won't go
into those further at this point), the provision of a venue for the
undertaking of the discussions and so on and so on. None of this
is particularly "national" (in fact little of it is likely to be
national which is the point I think of transnational agencies) and
little of it is likely to be visible as concrete "impacts" (or even
outputs--which is what is currently being discussed in the form of
possible IGF "recommendations" etc.). So a quest for
identification/assessment/determination of "impacts" is really beside
the point.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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