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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Yes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And thanks to all who contributed.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thomas Lowenhaupt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jeremy@ciroap.org href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">Jeremy Malcolm</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=governance@lists.cpsr.org
href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [governance] < 24 hours
remaining to vote YES + thematic working groups, YES or NO</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>If you have not voted on the IGC statement for the next open
consultation meeting, please vote now. At present the statement might
not pass the consensus call - not because there has been a lot of opposition
to it, but because the total number of responses is still relatively low.
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Please also remember that we have another thread in which to discuss the
agenda for the Vilnius meeting: so far there has been no response to
Parminder's suggestion of a theme on "Network Neutrality/Open
Internet". </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Here once again is the statement on which we have a consensus call.
Everyone who has voted YES so far has been contacted off-list to clarify
their attitude towards thematic working groups - none have yet changed their
vote.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Please vote:</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><B>YES + thematic working groups </B>to accept the statement as
shown here</DIV>
<DIV><B>YES</B> to accept the statement without the [underlined
passage]</DIV>
<DIV><B>NO</B> to reject the statement</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><B>Submission of the IGC in taking stock of the Sharm el Sheikh
meeting of the IGF</B></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) strongly supports the continuation
of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as a multi-stakeholder forum for the
discussion of Internet-related public policy issues. When, as we expect,
the forum's mandate is extended for a further term, there are a number of
adjustments that we believe should be taken into account, continuing the IGF's
pattern of incremental improvement since its inauguration in 2006.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>None of these suggestions would fundamentally alter the IGF as an
institution; for example, we are content that it remain formally convened
by the UN Secretary General, with an independent budget and a Secretariat
under contract with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (UNDESA). We do not see any benefit to the IGF in moving
underneath a different UN body such as the ITU.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>One question on which the IGC is in clear agreement is that the
composition of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) itself should be more
evenly divided between the stakeholder groups. Many also believe that
the stakeholders should have a more direct role in the selection of MAG
members, and that MAG discussions should continue to be made more
transparent.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>One particular aspect of the IGF's operations in which the participation
of stakeholders could be improved is in setting the substantive agenda of
IGF meetings. We understand that the MAG might not be rotated this year
(though in our view the uncertainty about the IGF's future need not preclude
that). If a rotation does not take place, care must be taken that this
does not result in the programme for the Vilnius meeting being
prematurely set in stone. <SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: line-through"
class=Apple-style-span>[[The IGC is ready to make innovative
contributions to enhance the present "Secretariat-MAG-Open Consultation"
mechanism for the preparation of IGF meetings.]]</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The IGF should also consider how to improve its orientation towards the
development of tangible outputs, even if these would amount to "messages"
rather than to recommendations, declarations or statements (though many of our
members would also support outputs of these stronger kinds). Whatever
form its outputs take, efforts should be taken to ensure that they are
transmitted to relevant external institutions through appropriate
mechanisms.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Similarly, attention must be given to the effectiveness of the IGF's
intersessional work program, which is currently limited to open consultations,
MAG meetings, dynamic coalition meetings, and loosely connected national
and regional meetings. In particular, there should be a better
mechanism than at present for these other groups and meetings to present their
outputs to the IGF as a whole. This would require the IGF to set more
stringent standards for such groups and meetings, including open membership,
democratic processes, and perhaps multi-stakeholder composition.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class=Apple-style-span>[The MAG
should also organize thematic working groups to develop background material,
IGF discussion synthesis etc on major themes selected to be taken up by
the IGF.]</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>We thank you for the opportunity to present you with these thoughts,
which reflect a "rough consensus" of our several hundred members
from civil society. We look forward to continuing to constructively
engage with and participate in the IGF over the course of its renewed
term.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><B>About the IGC</B></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The IGC is an association of individuals in civil society, with
a wide spread of geographic and gender representation, who are
actively engaged in internet governance and the IGF. Formed during the lead up
to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), our mission is
to promote global public interest objectives in Internet governance
policy making. It now comprises more than 400 individual subscribers to its
mailing list, who have subscribed to its Charter. More about our
coalition can be found at <A
href="http://www.igcaucus.org">http://www.igcaucus.org</A>. <BR>
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