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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Sorry to initiate a process discussion but I think
it is important we move on on this particular issue.</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I’m starting this discussion to get wider input into how
civil society people think it would be appropriate to expand the current co
ordination group. To date, this debate has largely been about people thinking
they should be included rather than any formal criteria to ensure that the group
is representative while still staying at a reasonable size.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The group came into existence out of a need for civil
society groups to work together to nominate representatives for various forums;
originally for 1net and Brazil events, but certainly with thoughts of IGF MAG as
well in the future. <FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Currently included (in no
particular order) are the Association for Progressive Communications (APC),
Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group of ICANN
(NCSG), and (pending new coordinator elections) the Civil Society Internet
Governance Caucus (IGC).</FONT></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Remember, these are criteria for a co-ordination group
concerned with internet governance matters. Optimal membership levels may be
about 9, I think, but certainly well less than 20. </FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">So how do we choose?</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Criteria discussed so far include:</FONT></P>
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style="mso-list: ignore"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">1.</FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Is a coalition which is globally representative - all
regions covered?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Is it non-commercial and public interest oriented (as
opposed to business)?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">3. Would it more properly fit under technical
community, academic, business or government in its
categorization?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">4. Is a large part of this coalition's members
already covered by one of the existing members?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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The internal governance of the coalition is adequately transparent and
accountable to its members. </SPAN></P>
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suggestions have been discussed from time to time and I invite others to make up
for any omissions here.</SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: en-au"></SPAN> </P>
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additional criteria that might be useful would be a reference to having a
substantial current involvement in and knowledge of internet governance debates.
That however might not be acceptable to all – but for me, the criteria as they
stand would be open to approaches from YWCA, Medicin sans Frontieres, Pirate
Parties International, </SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Red Cross, Amnesty International, CONGO, Creative
Commons, International Commission of Jurists,etc. All good groups, and it would
be great to see them involved here, but the question is whether the presence of
all of them would be useful for a small working co-ordination group on matters
specific to internet governance. This along with other suggestions should be
discussed.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Interested in any thoughts relevant to refining this
into a workable set of criteria for expanding a small co-ordination group, the
members of which will be different coalitions of civil society organisations who
will want to maintain their independence while working together. One thought
that has been raised is to look at rotation of members, or perhaps a combination
of permanent and rotating members.</FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">So I am just opening this up for conversation to see
what people think. Please this is a discussion about criteria, not about
individual groups and their cases to be involved. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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Peter</SPAN></P>
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