<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear Milton Mueller,<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">FYI, here is my response to Question #3 on the CSTD questionnaire:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Which, if any, new mechanisms would you propose to improve the impact of the IGF discussions, in particular as regards the interaction between the IGF and other stakeholders? Please specify the kind of mechanism (e.g. reporting, exchanges, recommendations, concrete advice, etc.) and the stakeholders (e.g. intergovernmental bodies, other fora dealing with Internet Governance, etc.). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span>a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>IGF should be able to make recommendations. Of course they will be nonbinding, but unless IGF serves as a focal point for developing common positions it will become irrelevant.</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It would sound positive if this is reworded as "IGF should progress towards becoming a focal point of developing common positions and make informed, well considered recommendations [to Governments, inter-governmental bodies, to non-commercial and commercial organizations directly involved in the operation of Internet]</div>
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<span>b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>It should take on a bigger role in providing an accountability review of ICANN and other international organizations involved in internet governance</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting thought. It is really not a bad idea to take up this role, but if this role is taken up, the IGF shouldn't review only those organizations that are open to public comments and conveniently exclude those that are closed bodies. </div>
<div><br></div><div><ul><li>How would the IGF review closed organizations with aspirations to get disproportionately involved in Internet Governance? </li></ul><ul><li>How would it review Government Departments and Governments involved in Internet Governance, the same way organizations involved in Internet Governance are reviewed by the IGF?</li>
</ul></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>Comment on those who are open to comments and ignore all the harm by who may ignore comments? </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span>c)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Its Secretariat and MAG should be strongly encouraged to directly foster discussion and debate of difficult issues in main sessions, instead of avoiding them.</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1. Main session programs are drawn up by the MAG. If the ideas for main sessions, as they progress, are placed open for comments by the larger IGF community, main sessions could be designed better. </div>
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<span>d)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>IGF workshops and discussions must focus exclusively on public policy issues and debates, and not be an educational forum where the technical community explains how to implement internet technologies or projects the future of internet technologies. There are many industry and academic conferences that do a much better job of that.</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I like George Sadowsky's comments on this point.</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Sivasubramanian M<br><br><a href="http://www.isocmadras.com/" target="_blank">http://www.isocmadras.com</a><br>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Milton Mueller<br>
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies<br>XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology<br>------------------------------<br>Internet Governance Project:<br><a href="http://internetgovernance.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://internetgovernance.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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