<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt">Hello all, <br>I support signing this letter.<br>Regards<br><div> </div>NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul<br>Burundi Youth Training Centre<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bytc.bi">www.bytc.bi</a></span><br>Tel : +257 79 981459<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> Izumi AIZU <iza@anr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Governance List <governance@lists.cpsr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Jeu 9 décembre 2010, 2h 53min 28s<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [governance]
<Urgent> Draft Joint Letter protesting CSTD WG composition only by governments<br></font><br>Dear list,<br><br>The "rumor" that the decision to compose CSTD WG only by governments<br>is now proven to be true, decided by very few members of CSTD.<br><br>I have contacted ICC and ISOC, similar to the joint letter work we had on<br>Dec 14 consultation on enhanced cooperation. They shared the same<br>concern and worked out with many others mostly at ICANN Cartagena<br>meeting including ICANN, government folks etc: UK, Sweden, US,<br>ICANN, ccNSO etc.<br><br>Here is the draft text as of now. They plan to send it shortly, and asking IGC<br>to join. There may be last-minute minor edit, but it is almost final.<br><br>I propose that IGC to sign. IF you have any comments or suggestions,<br>please reply to this quickly. In general, we need 48 hours to decide,<br>but in this<br>special case, we may not have that luxury of time.<br><br>I have
prepared our own draft (sorry for the complication), and now<br>it is being edited by our nominees for CSTD WG. My suggestion is<br>to carry on this draft as well, and send it in addition to the joint one.<br><br>I will post that draft in a separate email and welcome your comments.<br>We will send that and perhaps make statement at Dec 17 WG meeting<br>if they do not change their decision. We will also include that and<br>read that at Dec 14 EC consultation meeting in New York.<br><br>Sorry for the confusing manner, but this could happen, and I think<br>acting quickly to keep the Multi-stakeholder framework is urgently<br>needed and important for us.<br><br>I hope you understand and support this.<br><br>best,<br><br>izumi<br><br>------------------<br>DRAFT<br><br>To Frederic Riehl<br>Cc Ghana Chair of the CSTD<br><br>We are surprised and deeply concerned by the CSTD Bureau’s decision<br>that the Working Group on IGF Improvements mandated by
resolution<br>(2010/2) of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)<br>will be composed exclusively of member states.<br>This ECOSOC resolution, which was initially negotiated during the CSTD<br>in May 2010 by or in the presence of many of the signatories below,<br>asked the Chair of the CSTD to establish a Working Group to: "seek,<br>compile and review inputs from all Member States and all other<br>stakeholders on improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF),<br>in line with the mandate set out in the Tunis Agenda".<br>These words are a clear reference to the paragraph of the WSIS Plan of<br>Action (Geneva 2003) that led to the establishment of the very<br>successful Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and ultimately<br>the creation of the IGF itself:<br><br>We ask the Secretary-General of the United Nations to set up a working<br>group on Internet governance, in an open and inclusive process that<br>ensures a mechanism for
the full and active participation of<br>governments, the private sector and civil society from both developing<br>and developed countries, involving relevant intergovernmental and<br>international organizations and forums, to investigate and make<br>proposals for action…<br><br>We therefore expected that the composition of the Working Group would<br>be strongly inspired by the methodology adopted for setting up the<br>multi-stakeholder WGIG, as stated as the CSTD Vice-Chair’s<br>recommendation in his report on the meeting he convened on 16<br>September 2010.<br><br>The format decided by the Bureau of the CSTD is contrary to both the<br>letter and the spirit of the ECOSOC resolution and is therefore not<br>acceptable.<br><br>In any event, it is not up to the Bureau of the CSTD to make a<br>decision on this matter. This is not a Working Group of the CSTD, but<br>rather a Working Group to be convened by the Chair of the CSTD as<br>instructed by the
ECOSOC resolution.<br>The CSTD Chair entrusted you with the mission of implementing the<br>request made to her. In light of that and the above information we<br>urge you to retract the decision of 7 December, and to establish an<br>appropriately constituted Working Group consistent with the WSIS<br>formulation ensuring “the full and active participation of<br>governments, the private sector and civil society from both developing<br>and developed countries, involving relevant intergovernmental and<br>international organizations and forums”.<br><br>------------------<br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org"
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