<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Your are specifically avoiding the point. Define suitable. Just what it means to you is fine.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 10/4/09, Michael Gurstein <I><gurstein@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><SPAN class=406344623-03102009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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 class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----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="http://us.mc807.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gurstein@gmail.com> wrote:" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com> wrote:">gurstein@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><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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