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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/11/13 17:58, William Drake wrote:<br>
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Hi
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<div>Apologies for cross posting but it seems needed.<br>
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+1 Bill, and you understand this already, but just in case anyone
else is confused, <i>the coalition/dialogue is not a Best Bits
initiative.</i> The civil society representatives to the
coalition/dialogue were simply put forward (in something of a hurry,
it must be said) at a meeting that we organised. Therefore, whilst
the civil society reps can pass along your points (and have already
made similar points, as I understand), it isn't in their hands alone
to open up the coalition/dialogue list. Therefore perhaps your
message wasn't cross-posted widely enough!<br>
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<div>As for the composition, if I understand correctly, you say
there are 21 reps of business and the TC, plus 4 reps of CS,
drawn solely from the Best Bits contingent of folks who were
able to be in Bali. While you four are of course all great
reps, this is obviously not a good inter-stakeholder group
balance, and more people should be drawn in (although obviously
not to the point of having a huge and unworkable group).</div>
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Or else, another option is ultimately to pull out of the
coalition/dialogue.<br>
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<div>I think there's a need to reach beyond just the IGF-oriented
chunk of CS. ... Same goes if there's consideration being given
to other relevant coalitions, whether issue-based (privacy, IPR,
whatever) or org-based (OECD CSISAC etc). We need to evolve
some sort of principled basis for doing this.<br>
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Absolutely agree. <br>
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