<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Ian Peter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px; ">At my last count there were over 140 countries, and I would expect them all to have the opportunity to be involved. That’s why involving the UN makes a lot of sense.</span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Ability to reach many countries is certainly important, but isn't sufficient on its own </div><div>(if it were, one might just as easily choose the International Olympic Committee...)</div><div><br></div><div>Presumably, there are criteria related to being able to nurture multi-stakeholder</div><div>open and transparent policy coordination which play some factor in this as well.</div><div>I am not in position to assess where the UN is with respect to these issues, but</div><div>believe it would be important to understand such as part of considering sensible </div><div>next steps.</div><div><br></div><div>/John</div><div><br></div></body></html>