<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Some of this just doesn't compute. The agenda was shaped by consensus achieved by a rather diverse spectrum of organizations, not all of which have been known to move in lockstep with each other.</div><div><br></div><div>In a shared decision making environment, hostility and a divisive agenda - not to mention a "they are all against me" complex like I see expressed below aren't exactly the best drivers for any kind of consensus building. <br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 06-Aug-2013, at 17:22, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>On 05/08/2013, at 2:02 AM, George Sadowsky
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<div>I note your sentence below:</div>
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successfully "forced their view" on the others until
now, by vetoing changes necessary for the IGF to fulfil
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<div>Could you clarify (a) what the rest of the IGF's
mandate is, and specifically where it is defined, (b)
exactly who are members of what you call the
just-a-conference group is, (c) what the veto mechanism is
and how it has been use, and (d) based upon the previous
responses, how responsibility should be distributed for
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<div class="AppleOriginalContents">It seems like I've been over this
many times before, and I'm actually curious why you are asking
these questions since you surely know the answers. So I'll keep
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(a) As you know, the rest of the IGF's mandate is in paragraph 72
of the Tunis Agenda, and amongst the paragraphs of the mandate
that it is widely agreed have not been fulfilled (citations
available, but I promised brevity) are the finalisation of
recommendations (mandate paragraph 72(g)), interfacing with
intergovernmental and other international organisations at an
executive level (paragraph 72(c)) and assessing the embodiment of
the WSIS principles in other Internet governance institutions
(paragraph 72(i)). <br>
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(b) Mainly ISOC (and other technical community), the ICC (and
other private sector) and the USA (and other OECD countries).<br>
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(c) From the very first questionnaire on the formation of the IGF,
the agenda was shaped to exclude certain formats and procedures
from consideration, with the object of denying the IGF the
organisational capacity to meet the above paragraphs of its
mandate. Aided by poor transparency of the MAG and a heavily
top-down Secretariat, structural inertia very quickly set in so
that further changes to the IGF suddenly became "impossible"; even
those minor improvements independently recommended by the CSTD.
The MAG is large, with an over-representation of technical
community representatives, and is chaired by one of their own,
with the result that it continues to be an effective instrument of
the status quo. IGF critics are generally kept out of the inner
circle - whilst I'm nobody important, I've never been selected for
the MAG nor for any main session. This could just be coincidence,
though it came to my attention recently that ISOC had specifically
vetoed my nomination to speak at a regional Internet governance
meeting, and Michael Gurstein, as you know, has been treated
similarly. Moreover it wasn't beneath one individual to spread a
false rumour that destroyed one of the dynamic coalitions that had
been advocating for progressive changes to the IGF.<br>
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(d) See (b) and (c) above.<br>
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