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On Wednesday 28 September 2011 06:31 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div>On 28/09/2011, at 2:50 PM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:</div>
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<div>Thanks for this clarification.<br>
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This underlines the need for CS to come up with an own draft of
Internet Governance Principles. But this has to be done in an open and
transparent manner. I am really surprised that IBSA worked in such an
intransparent way. <br>
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<div>Referring back to the minutes of the IGC meeting, Wolfgang had
suggested at that meeting that this should be a topic of our closing
session speech, and that we should call for the IGF to adopt as its
mission between now and the 2015 meeting to generate a truly
multi-stakeholder statement of Internet governance principles. We
should now discuss that more.</div>
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Strongly agree.... <br>
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<div>I propose that in general terms we should talk in the closing
session speech about how the various statements of principles that
individual stakeholders are putting forward are good, because it shows
that stakeholders are thinking about soft governance of the Internet
rather than hard law. Some stakeholders are even bringing their
statements of principles back to the IGF to be discussed in workshops.
This is also good, since the IGF is the perfect place for such
discussion. But continuing this process, the next step will be for the
IGF at large to progress towards consensus on common principles, and we
call for the IGF to do this not merely in a stakeholder-organised
workshop, but as a plenary body, involving all participants, and taking
advantage of the improvements to its processes that we expect the CSTD
Working Group will propose. Amongst these improvements, we hope, will
be a process to better involve remote participants, particularly from
the global South, in the development of the principles. As civil
society's input into this process, we intend to prepare our own set of
principles in an open and transparent fashion before the date of the
next G20 meeting, and to formally launch them at the 2012 IGF. If such
a set of common principles can emerge from the IGF before 2015, this
accomplishment will imbue them with a status and legitimacy that none
of the individual statements of principles - G8, CoE, EU, etc - could
ever achieve.</div>
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<div>Please provide your comments on the above.</div>
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<div>Mallory Knodel wrote:</div>
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<div>Also, it's possible that I'll be dropping in at the IGF - will
you hold a press conference at some point? Also, what's the
on-the-ground mobilization in Nice or Cannes for publicizing it?</div>
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<div>No plans for a press conference, but we can (see above) mention
it in our closing session speech at the IGF.</div>
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<div>I would have liked Izumi to deliver the closing address but he
will be leaving Nairobi too early, and has asked me to do so. But if
anyone else wishes to deliver it, or has another name to put forward,
please let me know.</div>
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