<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:37 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Wednesday 25 June 2014 02:08 AM,
David Sullivan wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all - does anyone know if the Just Net Coalition
has a public list of members yet? I've noted with interest
multiple recent submissions and statements on the <a href="http://justnetcoalition.org/" target="_blank">JNC
website</a>, but it's somewhat hard to fully appreciate these
documents when the membership they represent appears somewhat
ambiguously related to a list of attendees from a February
meeting. <br>
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</div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Dear David<br>
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Thanks for your
interest in the Just Net Coalition, and its membership. The
following
facts may be useful to you in this regard. <br>
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The
attendees of the mentioned Feb meeting, listed on the Coalition's
<a href="http://justnetcoalition.org/" target="_blank">website</a> launched the
coalition and
adopted its principles, which are contained in the <a href="http://justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration" target="_blank">Delhi
Declaration</a>. Both the principles and the organisational
issues,
processes etc were evolved at the meeting through break out groups
and latter adoption of their outputs by consensus at the plenary.
Even the need or otherwise for such a coalition and the name of
the
coalition were respectively discussed, and adopted at the meeting,
by
full consensus. <br>
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Therefore there is a good basis to consider
the list of attendees of the Feb meeting prima facie as the
initial
list of members of the Coalition. In this background, in general,
you and others
need to feel no ambiguity about Coalition membership and the basis
of
its statements and positions. <br>
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Further, all the submissions
and statements that you would have seen are adopted by a formal
consensus process, with discussion time, 48 hours call, and all
that, on an elist
that contains all the attendees of the Feb meeting plus all those
who
were invited and could not attend for some reason. While these
additional people can, to that extent, be considered as a part of
the
consensus process for making Just Net Coalition (JNC) statements,
we
have in fact been conservative and not listed them as members of
JNC
anywhere. <br>
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In the same spirit of a conservative approach and
full due diligence, we have asked all attendees and invitees of
the
Feb workshop to reconfirm their membership of the Just Net
Coalition,
which involves an agreement with the <a href="http://justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration" target="_blank">Delhi
Declaration</a>. <font color="#000000">As Norbert mentions,
there has been some delay in this work, however it is in its
final
phase right now</font><font color="#0000ff">.</font> As per
current
information we have precisely 3 people who have not re-confirmed
membership, all three saying that they agree with the principles
but
do not have organisational clearance. There are 3-4 others with
whom
we are still in communication with regard to their internal
organisational processes to ok joining such a coalition. Overall
there are considerably more number of organisations and
individuals
that have confirmed membership than are at present listed on the
JNC
website, indicated as attendees of the Feb meeting. The full list
should be up on the website within a week. <br>
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We are happy to
respond to any other query about the Coalition. In fact, we plan
to
provide a 'your right to know' link on Coalition's web page where
all
organisational, including financial information, will be provided.
The same page will welcome anyone who wants any further
information
about the Coalition, providing an email link, with a guaranteed
response within 2 weeks. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Regards<span><font color="#888888"><br>
parminder</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Parminder - this is very helpful context. The reason why I queried the IGC list about this issue was that I could not find any information on the JNC website to this effect, and although I subscribed to the newsletter had not received any mailings. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I know that ironing out the operational details of getting organizational signoffs for coalition work can be challenging and takes time. However, those reviewing JNC submissions or reading statements who do not subscribe to the IGC, Best Bits, or other open IG e-lists could find this confusing. Adding a short paragraph of interim boilerplate might help until the membership is resolved and made public. </div>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
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