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<font face="sans-serif">Hi All<br>
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I am not sure we should ask for the workshop on 'evaluation of
CSTD....' when we are in any case proposing the one on 'Indian
proposal'. I have been to many workshops in the IGF now and am
convinced that the valuable time of a global assemblage once in a
year under official UN legitimacy should be devoted to relatively
clear and concrete deliberations, aimed at making progress on the
global Internet policy landscape. A simple evaluation of the CSTD
WG in my opinion will attract a lot of empty verbiage, denoting
standard perspectives of different parties. Having to specifically
comment on a concrete proposal on the table on the other hand
will, hopefully, force people to be clear and concise in their
propositions. <br>
<br>
Also, I am almost sure that the secretariat will ask us to merge
these two workshops as being too close to each other in their
subject matter. There may therefore be no point in starting with
two proposals when the ultimate destiny of them is more or less
known in advance. This is for the group's and co-coordinator's
consideration.<br>
<br>
parminder <br>
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On Thursday 07 April 2011 11:37 PM, Miguel Alcaine wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTi=Nk0Xcsk0yXkD6Ke3MTob5XU8Q8A@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Dear All,<br>
<br>
I believe the three ideas (two proposed by Jeremy and the one
proposed by McTim) are important.<br>
<br>
<b>Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0</b><br>
This kind of work will allow to pave the way towards real
improvement of IGF.<br>
<br>
<b>Evaluation of the CSTD WG on Improvements to the IGF</b><br>
This is interesting and convenient because the CSTD is the entry
point of IGF into the intergovernmental machinery and an analysis
could help to suggest ways to improve work within the framework of
the CSTD. <br>
<br>
<b>Real IG (I would suggest Current IG vis a vis meta IG)</b><br>
I believe the group (and many members) around this emailing list,
as I have said before, has the capacity, expertise and
capabilities to work and influence in what McTim calls real IG,
which revolves around settings where current decisions are taken.
A workshop presenting and discussing this issue will help
clarifying the current mapping between foras, bodies, decisions
and impacts, and might help a lot of uninitiated people.<br>
<br>
I hope IGC can find resources and partners to take the above ideas
for workshops forward.<br>
<br>
Miguel<br>
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Disclaimer<br>
My ideas are those of my own and does not represent any position
of my employer or any other institution<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Jeremy
Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="im">On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 08:57 +0300, McTim
wrote:<br>
> hi,<br>
><br>
> Might it be possible to do a workshop on an actual
Internet Governance<br>
> issue instead of navel-gazing?<br>
><br>
> We couldn't even get our act together to make a
statement to the NTIA,<br>
> are we really only about talking about meta-IG, and not
real IG?<br>
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Why not both? Please suggest a topic for what you call "real
IG", and<br>
if there is broad agreement, the IGC can sponsor that too.<br>
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