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Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div>On 29/01/2010, at 6:36 PM, Parminder wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Since you have in any case
opened the field I think it will be best to
redo the statement a bit, without adding anything controversial.
Getting a good statement may be a more important imperative. And we do
still have time. We have closed statements later than this previously.<br>
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I suggest - you remove the part on 'innovative contributions' reg MAG,
since there was always enough controversy regarding it for it not to be
there in first place....<br>
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<div>Like others, I cannot fathom how this suggests support for the
disbandment of the MAG. <br>
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Because that is the spirit and background in which those who suggested
that sentence made it, and that is the context in which the issue will
be on the table at the open consultations (not disbanding, which is an
extreme term, but experimenting towards doing with less or none of MAG,
which is the way it was described). and also significantly, in the
discussion I, and I understand at least one more person, were
opposing this stream of logic... So it should not have gone into the
statement in the first place. (Only two people were arguing for it.) <br>
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And if your explanation is that this is a harmless general statement,
that no one can object to, why you did not as well pick some 'harmless'
sentence form my numerous emails - that no one can object to -
somethign like 'we should seek to strengthen rather than weaken the
capacity of the IGF and the MAG system towards purposeful activity'<br>
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which in the context of the present issue on the table would get read
as, we are not for doing away with post Feb MAG meetings....<br>
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Parminder <br>
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<div>For now I am going to leave the consensus call open. Once it
closes Ginger and I can post any final suggested changes to the list
for comment to see if anyone objects.</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">and add, two substantive
themes - development agenda and HR - for IGF
Vilnius.... these are our long standing demands.... </div>
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<div>Others have pointed out that these belong in a separate
statement, and I agree. I don't think we need to draft a long, formal
statement and make a consensus call on it, since we already have a
long-standing consensus to promote these themes. But let's start a
separate thread.</div>
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