>From what I understood, this decision was made behind closed doors with a small number of governments. Is this the case that we contact representatives from other countries, that have been excluded from the petit comité to see a) what is their position on this b) if they dont agree, are they willing to oppose it? c) how? verbally? political action?<br>
<br>Best,<br><br>Marilia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">In message <p06240817c924c68e2dd5@[186.113.248.242]>, at 14:26:36 on Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Adam Peake <<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp" target="_blank">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>> writes<div class="im">
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Comment at the ICANN meeting this evening is that Wolfgang's news about the CSTD working group is correct.<br>
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The only reasonable option for all civil society, private sector and Internet community is simply to not participate.<br>
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Based on the email that Izumi quoted yesterday, about attendance at the CSTD session on the 17th, it does appear to be the "classic" recent CSTD model of [in the room] Governments, ECOSOC consultative status entities and WSIS accredited entities. Which excludes a wider range of stakeholders, but the WSIS-accredited ones are supposed to past their honeymoon period now, and CSTD never was open to everyone.<br>
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But if the WG doesn't even allow those other entities as observers, that's a step backwards.<br>
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I do also wonder if there has been so much fighting for seats on the non-government part of the originally proposed WG that they've decided that rather than disappoint some, they'll disappoint all.<br>
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Roland Perry</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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