<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 15, 2012, at 9:08 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">It seems that 2013 is going to an important year for global IG.... The battle lines are more clearly drawn. I hope civil society contributes in a positive way, in what can in a way be constructed as a 'significant opportunity' having opened up for appropriate agenda framing and insitutional development that is in the best global public interest.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>One of the most important things the CS can provide is a clear, consistent </div><div>vision of what participatory multistakeholder Internet governance should look </div><div>like, including a well-defined role for governments which is consistent with </div><div>their public policy role and obligations. </div><div><br></div><div>I imagine this vision is not primarily based on a "1 government, 1 vote" model,</div><div>but similarly it probably cannot be "all governments sit at the same table as </div><div>everyone else in all circumstances, and by the way, one government has a </div><div>unique role due to historical circumstances."</div><div><br></div><div>FYI,</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: My views alone. No governments were harmed in the preparation</div><div>of this email. </div><div><br></div></body></html>