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Jeremy<br>
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I have been unable to figure out if this is about the Brazil's WTPF
opinion proposal or it is about proposing a plan for IGF making
recommendations. Can you please clarify.<br>
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If it is about the Brazilian proposal, would you explain why do you
find this particular issue is of such an outstanding significance
over so many others.... I for one could never clearly understand the
intent and significance of the Brazilian proposal, and I think
different players are making different things of it. I dont see it
as very significant thing and I am happy to let it die or
disappear, I prefer to discuss issues which have some clarity about
them. Brazilian proposal, and its intent, and different people's
take on it, simply do not make clear sense to me. Taking such a
rather unclear issue to the IGF as the first test of IGF's
recommendation making capacity to me doesnt sound as an exciting
idea. A good issue to test IGF's recommendation capacity will be
such a one which everyone understands in the same way but people
still have different views about it. And something which is really
important. And Brazilian proposal seems to be as one of the worst
candidates. However, I am happy to be explained the meaning and
significance of the Brazilian proposal.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 18 May 2013 10:17 PM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello all,</div>
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<div>This is to an extend an invitation to participants from the
IGC and IRP to join Best Bits participants in working on a draft
proposal that we intend to put to next week's IGF open
consultation meeting. The initiative for this proposal comes
out of what happened at the World Telecommunication/ICT Policy
Forum (WTPF) this week, when Brazil's proposal for a seventh
opinion of the meeting, titled "Operationalizing the role of
Government in the multi-stakeholder framework for Internet
Governance", failed mainly due to lack of time. I won't say
anything more about its substantive content here (though that is
a worthy subject for a separate thread), but you can download
the draft opinion at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13-C-0005/en">http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13-C-0005/en</a> or
read it online at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTewmlgXNTRYuPvIWylV2K39owgXH8st642I7IaXjh0/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTewmlgXNTRYuPvIWylV2K39owgXH8st642I7IaXjh0/edit</a>.</div>
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<div>Almost all stakeholders at WTPF agreed that the opinion
should be considered further, but there is a question as to
where this should happen. Two options are that the opinion
would be finalised by the ITU's Council Working Group on
Internet policy (CWG-Internet), which is government-only and
meets behind closed doors, or that it would go to the IGF. In
terms of our ability to have input into the text of the opinion,
the latter is obviously the better option. But various
developing countries objected to this, correctly, on the basis
that the IGF does not have the ability to conclude formal
outputs.</div>
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<div>The draft proposal addresses this tension, by proposing a new
output-oriented main session that would enable the IGF to
facilitate the finalisation of the draft opinion, but without
requiring changes to the IGF that would enable it to negotiate
formal recommendations. I won't repeat everything in the
proposal, but in short, the main session would aim to produce a
"multistakeholder opinion" that would be non-binding, would be
an output <i>at</i> the IGF rather than <i>of</i> the IGF, and
would be endorsed individually rather than being attributed to
the IGF as a whole.</div>
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<div>If (after reading it!) you would like to discuss the ideas in
the proposal in general, you can do so on this list and/or on
the Best Bits list, but if you would like to suggest concrete
textual changes to the proposal, you can do so on this pad,
which currently contains a first draft:</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/igf-opinions">http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/igf-opinions</a></div>
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<div>The deadline for finalising the proposal is short because the
IGF open consultation commences on Tuesday. Therefore we are
accepting input on the text of the proposal only until 9am
Monday, and shortly thereafter it will be opened for
endorsements via the Best Bits website. The proposal will be
presented at the open consultation meeting on behalf of however
many organisations or individuals have endorsed it at that time.</div>
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<div>Note that this proposal is intended to be a fairly modest yet
important step forward towards tangible outputs, but the
"multistakeholder opinion" process isn't in itself put forward
as the fulfilment of the enhanced cooperation mandate. Rather,
it is a step along that path, acknowledging that, for now, the
IGF and enhanced cooperation processes remain on a dual track
(the Tunis Agenda suggests this anyway, but it was formalised as
a condition of the IGF's renewal to satisfy developing country
concerns that the IGF had not adequately addressed their
concerns).</div>
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