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    <p><font face="Verdana">There is going to be no fancy 'leadership
        group'</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">No one has mentioned its need,
        justification, etc.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">I dont mind Arsene and Bruno to continue
        till elections, and they should. <br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">Sala, you were the greatest proponent for
        early even intimidate elections. Now, you agree with Ian below
        that no "immediate coco election" "seems to be he most supported
        option"? Anyway...</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">If elections are due, they should take
        place. <br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">If they are postponed, clear reasons may be
        described and action be taken as per.... Charter amendment is
        out from such a list of reasons... Website work is independent
        and nothing to do with elections (although remember IGC was
        never much about a great website, it needs to first gets its
        'substance' right which is nearly at about 'zero' right now, but
        new things are always welcome, pl go ahead. But let not the
        website volunteer list become anything else meanwhile).</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">Are elections therefore being postponed bec
        BB members (that are not already in the IGC) need to be able to
        get to vote  (although no one has really explained why that such
        a tearing hurry to vote for what everyone agrees is likely a
        pretty small number, but anyway)?  Pl be clear and specific in
        response -- both, the cocos, and those from BB who know about
        this matter. election postponement is a big thing.  Thanks. <br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">Let us clearly be told why elections are
        being postponed... If the above BB issue, then we want clarity
        on; is BB closure and folding into the IGC decided, when would
        the non IGC members enrol in the IGC, any time lines etc for
        that..</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">That alone is the clear issue in front of
        us, related to coco elections. So please convey clarity to the
        IGC membership asap on this matter, and I request cocos special
        attention to this</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">Thanks and regards</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana">parminder</font></p>
    <p><font face="Verdana"></font><br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/07/19 4:37 AM, "Salanieta T.
      Tamanikaiwaimaro" (via governance Mailing List) wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAJwbTiCpqN10SbRiutbHQtDVrYQNOK6fc9Oet-3Wj_wSKsTO7A@mail.gmail.com">
      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <div dir="auto">Ditto everything that Ian said.</div>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, 11:49 pm
          <a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" moz-do-not-send="true">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>,
          <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:<br>
        </div>
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          <div>
            <div>Well its good to see so many people who care about the
              future of a credible voice for civil society in the
              internet governance field, even if there are big
              differences as regards how to revive things in this space!</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>If I may summarise:</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1. IGC Charter revisions are not urgent. They should be
              discussed down the track after a credible web presence and
              leadership structure have been restored.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>2. We have offers of assistance (including Farzeneh and
              Jeremy) regards website restoration. There is no reason
              why this cannot take place now with a small group
              reporting back here. (see separate topic)</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>3. Regarding leadership. Many strong voices argue for
              coco election now, others suggest a delay of a couple of
              months until other matters are in place. I am not
              convinced either way - do we have a membership list, for
              instance, which is necessary for elections? If not, there
              seems to be no choice but to delay. And if there is one
              election now, there will also be another one in less than
              six months when Bruna's term expires. So an argument to do
              both together in a few months is reasonable perhaps. I
              will be happy for whatever outcome the call suggests for
              this, BUT::::::</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>If there is not an immediate coco election, which seems
              to be the most supported option, I believe it is
              essential; we agree to an interim leadership group until
              it is practical to hold such elections. Apart from Bruna,
              capable names like Sheeta and Farzeneh have been
              mentioned. Such an interim group is absolutely necessary,
              I believe, if the group decides on the call not to proceed
              immediately with coco elections.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>So I am happy whichever way the call determines on this
              one: but I am not happy for there to be no action at all
              to resolve this issue. </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Ian Peter</div>
            <div> -</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>------ Original Message ------</div>
            <div>From: "Sheetal Kumar" <<a
                href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org" target="_blank"
                rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">sheetal@gp-digital.org</a>></div>
            <div>To: "parminder" <<a
                href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank"
                rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></div>
            <div>Cc: "Mueller, Milton L" <<a
                href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" target="_blank"
                rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">milton@gatech.edu</a>>;
              "Nnenna Nwakanma" <<a href="mailto:nnenna75@gmail.com"
                target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">nnenna75@gmail.com</a>>;
              "governance" <<a
                href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net"
                target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>></div>
            <div>Sent: 18/07/2019 7:43:41 PM</div>
            <div>Subject: Re: [governance] Reviving IGC: Merging
              Bestbits in, IGF Day zero event and other subjects</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div id="m_6990595258997513335xd87615d367764f6">
              <blockquote
cite="http://CAK78muQeWtYVFxB8z74BnYkM91w8Q0=fq4=Zv-ZaqMZ7j4QKDg@mail.gmail.com"
                type="cite" class="m_6990595258997513335cite2">
                <div dir="ltr">
                  <div>Dear Parminder, all, <br>
                  </div>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                  <div>As you and others have pointed out, the
                    conversation about closing Bestbits and requesting
                    any members there who are not already on IGC to join
                    IGC (aka 'merger' to some) has been ongoing for
                    months. The information has been continually shared
                    on both this list/among this community and on the
                    Bestbits list. Anyway, we could have done more to
                    reach out to key people and communicated things more
                    clearly perhaps. That's something I've learned. We
                    did try but we can always do more to communicate
                    better.  <br>
                  </div>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                  <div>There are just a few things which Parminder
                    you've asked clarity on, and what follows is my
                    reading of things as someone who has been part of
                    the relevant discussions from the beginning so I do
                    hope I'm not misrepresenting anything. As Farzaneh
                    was doing earlier, I think it's worth identifying
                    what we agree on and then work through what we
                    disagree on.<br>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p><i> If there is anything more? If so, everyone
                        involved, please state it out here, explicitly,
                        on the IGC's primary working space. Why are we
                        going  in so many circles about it?</i></p>
                    <p><i>
                      </i></p>
                    <p><i>What process is being disregarded, the one
                        about  which yesterday Arsene reported that it
                        was decided that elections will be held after
                        (1) the IGC charter is amended (and I have been
                        asking what is this, who triggered this demand,
                        with what objectives, what justifications, and
                        so on, and people simply refuse to answer), and
                        (2) when their is a combined list (sorry, IGC is
                        not a list, one has to individually take its
                        membership with an explicit individual-based
                        process, there is no merging or combining lists
                        here) .</i></p>
                    <p>All that has been discussed, on both IGC and
                      Bestbits lists, including by active, long-standing
                      and even founding members of both, has been how to
                      reinvigorate civil society coordination. It was
                      agreed by those taking part in these discussions
                      which have been open to everyone from the start
                      (there is a whole archive of the discussions that
                      have been continually shared on here and on
                      Bestbits, including <a
                        href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Bestbitscallfuture"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">in the etherpad here</a>),
                      that the existence of both Bestbits and IGC wasn't
                      helping so Bestbits should close. As we are all
                      sticklers for process (a good thing, in my
                      opinion), this could not simply be a matter of
                      closing the list and telling everyone to move off
                      onto another (IGC) if they weren't already
                      members. As I mentioned before, Bestbits was more
                      than a list too. Instead, we had conversations
                      about it, that lasted months. Some people even
                      wanted to create a new group. We decided not to.
                      Among some suggestions that came out of these
                      conversations was the opportunity to revise the
                      IGC charter. Founding IGC members were part of
                      this discussion, nothing, and I repeat, nothing
                      was decided or agreed in that regard. Indeed it
                      would be bizarre for that to happen. Any such
                      process would have to respect the IGC charter and
                      involve all members. Of course. Anything that has
                      been shared which says otherwise are simply
                      unfortunate misunderstandings, and we should move
                      on. There are no reverse takeovers taking place,
                      no desire to rip apart the Charter. Respect for
                      process is key. There is no self-appointed
                      leadership from what I can see, just people trying
                      to steer things towards more unity and less
                      fracture. <br>
                    </p>
                    <p><i>
                        Any newcomer needs just 2 months of membership
                        to vote.. No one really is insisting that we
                        hold elections like today . But this certainly
                        cannot be the reason for a process that you /
                        Sheetal are saying has been on for more than 6
                        months now. That  would be so very illogical,
                        no..... Is just the issue of eligibility for
                        voting stopping the process, but why labour it
                        over 7 months when it needs just 2 months
                        cooling period? -- Although it does make me
                        wonder, and I repeat, why such a strong focus on
                        the coordinator election!! IGC is much more than
                        that... Why such insistence!!? What does one
                        read into it. <br>
                      </i></p>
                    <p>It may seem bizarre, but honestly, it just took
                      ages for those in the discussions which have been
                      open to everyone since the beginning to decide to
                      close Bestbits as a 'solution' to a lack of civil
                      society coordination. There were other proposals
                      like I said, including setting up a new group. So
                      here we are. 7 months later, with agreement to
                      close Bestbits and not create a new list or do
                      something else. IGC is more than a list, sure, but
                      because leadership is I guess key to
                      reinvigorating things, elections are seen as a way
                      to start.<br>
                    </p>
                    <p>Also, others have asked 'how many people are on
                      Bestbits' that are not on IGC? Honestly, I don't
                      know. Maybe its 2, maybe its 20. My reasoning is
                      that even if one or two of those people join and
                      have the energy and commitment to run for
                      elections and coordinate going forward, we should
                      wait for them to join. Do we have much to lose?
                      David and Jeanette have pointed out that we could
                      wait for an indefinite period of time and it would
                      just be a for a handful of people to join. That is
                      true, so we could undertake an exercise comparing
                      who is not on both lists and reach out to them
                      directly. Alternatively, we are planning to have a
                      call in w/c August 05 (I will send the details
                      soon) and we can collectively set a date then for
                      the closure of Bestbits, requesting those not
                      already on IGC to join. And then we'll be all
                      having this conversation on this list, including
                      new members. Once new BB members have joined (even
                      if its just 2-3 people) we can then decide whether
                      to hold elections right away or wait 2 months.
                      Maybe everyone will want to just hold elections
                      right away, including the handful of new members.
                      Or maybe they'll want to wait. Also, we can
                      discuss the day 0 event together. If we don't do
                      the closure properly then we risk relevant and
                      interested people losing out on the opportunity to
                      discuss these things. <br>
                    </p>
                    <p>So, can we agree that we set a date and time by
                      which members of Bestbits who are not members of
                      IGC join IGC and then we set an agenda, and have a
                      conversation about when to hold elections etc etc?<br>
                    </p>
                    <p>Also, btw the day 0 event is from 16h00-18h00 in
                      Room X. </p>
                    <p>Best</p>
                    <p>Sheetal<br>
                    </p>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <br>
                <div class="gmail_quote">
                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Jul 2019
                    at 09:35, parminder <<a
                      href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"
                      target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">parminder@itforchange.net</a>>
                    wrote:<br>
                  </div>
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                      <p><br>
                      </p>
                      <div
                        class="m_6990595258997513335gmail-m_-1839724901850448854moz-cite-prefix">On
                        17/07/19 11:02 PM, Mueller, Milton L wrote:<br>
                      </div>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
                        class="m_6990595258997513335cite"> What Sheetal
                        says below is correct in my opinion. We are in
                        fact trying to merge BB and IGC. </blockquote>
                      <p>Only loosely speaking, formally from IGC point
                        of view, there is no merging happening... Some
                        new people want to join IGC, and if conditions
                        are fulfilled they are indeed welcome.</p>
                      <p> If there is anything more? If so, everyone
                        involved, please state it out here, explicitly,
                        on the IGC's primary working space. Why are we
                        going  in so many circles about it?</p>
                      <p>Lately, two specific, and what I consider
                        minor, issues have been stated. <br>
                      </p>
                      <p>1. Can enough time be given to elections so
                        that the new members can go through their 2
                        month cooling period.... I said that can be
                        done, and there has been no major opposition to
                        it (Although, frankly, if you ask me, I really
                        do not understand why this hurry and absolute
                        insistence on voting right away . That should
                        not be such a big thing. Cooling periods are
                        there for a reason. People who havent ever been
                        on the IGC  need to observe, see and know and
                        mingle before insisting on some absolute rights
                        to vote for their choice of coordinator. So,
                        why, really this insistence ? What is the plan?
                        But anyway, I really said I am fine either way.)<br>
                      </p>
                      <p>2. What to do with BB's web archives, and again
                        there is not much problem with it. Whenever we
                        have a working IGC website, we can put them
                        somewhere on it, no problem.</p>
                      <p>What else? Is there anything more? Why dont
                        people tell us clearly, rather than going in
                        circles and creating so much confusion. <br>
                      </p>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
                        class="m_6990595258997513335cite">We are trying
                        to create a more unified civil society presence.
                        We don’t do that by throwing up procedural walls
                        around this group.</blockquote>
                      <p>Can you be explicit? what procedural walls are
                        blocking BB people -- other than those who
                        already are there-- from joining IGC, ?<br>
                      </p>
                      <p><br>
                      </p>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
                        class="m_6990595258997513335cite"> Face facts,
                        IGC needs the people from BB just as much as
                        they need us. It is destructive, as Sheetal
                        says, to disregard the process we have been
                        going through to bring things back together. </blockquote>
                      <p>What process is being disregarded, the one
                        about  which yesterday Arsene reported that it
                        was decided that elections will be held after
                        (1) the IGC charter is amended (and I have been
                        asking what is this, who triggered this demand,
                        with what objectives, what justifications, and
                        so on, and people simply refuse to answer), and
                        (2) when their is a combined list (sorry, IGC is
                        not a list, one has to individually take its
                        membership with an explicit individual-based
                        process, there is no merging or combining lists
                        here) .</p>
                      <p><br>
                      </p>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
                        class="m_6990595258997513335cite"> I hope I
                        don’t need to remind people why a significant
                        chunk of civil society broke off from IGC to
                        begin with - but it looks like certain actors
                        are doing the reminding for me.  </blockquote>
                      <p>Sure, Milton, since you are now going towards a
                        confrontational abyss, please do remind us.
                        (Btw,  I was among the founding members of BB,
                        and I remember you werent around that much in
                        those discussions).  In fact any coming back of
                        BB member to IGC -- if you really think so
                        --should perhaps be helped by visiting the
                        original conditions of why they went away and so
                        on... We are capable of an adult conversation
                        here, and should not be afraid. Important public
                        facts are always good to know and discuss. And
                        then one may also discuss what happened with BB,
                        whether they were able to achieve the objectives
                        they set themselves for, if not, why, and what
                        are the reasons of BB's dissolution and coming
                        back to an IGC, which admittedly is far weaker
                        and lost now than when they left it. <br>
                      </p>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
                        class="m_6990595258997513335cite">
                        <div>
                          <div><br>
                          </div>
                          <div>It is exclusionary to hold elections now,
                            before the newcomers can vote. Can someone
                            tell me what positive goal is achieved by
                            doing that? Can someone tell me what is lost
                            if we don’t hold elections? </div>
                        </div>
                      </blockquote>
                      <p>Any newcomer needs just 2 months of membership
                        to vote.. No one really is insisting that we
                        hold elections like today . But this certainly
                        cannot be the reason for a process that you /
                        Sheetal are saying has been on for more than 6
                        months now. That  would be so very illogical,
                        no..... Is just the issue of eligibility for
                        voting stopping the process, but why labour it
                        over 7 months when it needs just 2 months
                        cooling period? -- Although it does make me
                        wonder, and I repeat, why such a strong focus on
                        the coordinator election!! IGC is much more than
                        that... Why such insistence!!? What does one
                        read into it. <br>
                      </p>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
                        class="m_6990595258997513335cite">
                        <div>
                          <div>Do some people like for IGC to be a small
                            and hostile place where they can be a big
                            fish in a small pond? I hope not. <br>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </blockquote>
                      <p>(Just to match) Or are some people planning to
                        make IGC their private pond. I hope not. <br>
                      </p>
                      <p><br>
                      </p>
                      <p>parminder <br>
                      </p>
                      <blockquote type="cite"
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                        <div>
                          <div><br>
                            <div
                              id="m_6990595258997513335gmail-m_-1839724901850448854AppleMailSignature"
                              dir="ltr">Milton L Mueller
                              <div>Professor, School of Public Policy</div>
                              <div>Georgia Institute of Technology</div>
                            </div>
                            <div dir="ltr"><br>
                              On Jul 17, 2019, at 14:07, Sheetal Kumar
                              <<a
                                href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org"
                                target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                moz-do-not-send="true">sheetal@gp-digital.org</a>>
                              wrote:<br>
                              <br>
                            </div>
                            <blockquote type="cite"
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                              <div dir="ltr">
                                <div dir="ltr">
                                  <div>Dear all, <br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>I agree that it is easy to join
                                    IGC if you sign up to the Charter.
                                    It's indeed pretty straightforward.
                                    However, what I don't understand is
                                    the disregard for a process that has
                                    been ongoing for months, about a
                                    large and until recently active
                                    splinter group of IGC (namely,
                                    Bestbits) which has since agreed to
                                    close and its members who are not
                                    already part of IGC 'join IGC'.
                                    Bestbits was not just a mailing
                                    list, it had an active membership,
                                    it had a functioning website, it had
                                    a steering group, it used to
                                    coordinate, and more. It also had
                                    its own membership of the CSCG and
                                    used to convene an event before the
                                    global IGF. And now it is closing.
                                    Who knows how many people who have
                                    been part of that discussion or at
                                    least following on Bestbits who are
                                    not on IGC would like to be part of
                                    the IGC elections? Whether its
                                    semantic or not to call it a
                                    'merger', the point remains that
                                    this has been a discussion for a few
                                    months that should, IMHO, have an
                                    impact on when to hold the IGC
                                    elections. They don't have to, but I
                                    think it makes sense for them to
                                    considering the history of IGC and
                                    Bestbits (as a splinter group of
                                    IGC). Also, I'm not saying this
                                    because I want to run for any
                                    elections necessarily, I've only
                                    ever been interested a discussion
                                    towards a more impactful and
                                    coordinated civil society in this
                                    space. It just seems to make sense
                                    not to disregard that Bestbits
                                    discussion and to take decisions
                                    with the Bestbits discussion in mind
                                    (again, because of the history of
                                    the connection between Bestbits and
                                    IGC).<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>I've looked at the IGC Charter
                                    and it says "Voting process: Each
                                    person who is subscribed to the list
                                    at least two (2) months before the
                                    election will be given a voter
                                    account". <br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>So, even if Bestbits members who
                                    are not part of IGC joined then they
                                    couldn't vote right away. Shouldn't
                                    we wait for 2-3 months? If there is
                                    a time sensitive reason not to, that
                                    would be good to discuss.<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>For clarity, revising the IGC
                                    charter was only ever an idea, its
                                    not been agreed to anywhere by
                                    anyone. It's just something to
                                    discuss, further down the line.
                                    Perhaps.<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>Best</div>
                                  <div>Sheetal<br>
                                  </div>
                                </div>
                                <br>
                                <div class="gmail_quote">
                                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
                                    Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 12:40, Nnenna
                                    Nwakanma <<a
                                      href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net"
                                      target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>>
                                    wrote:<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
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                                      <div>I think we can pull off an
                                        IGC elections by  Berlin IGF.<br>
                                      </div>
                                      Joining the IGC from BB  should
                                      not be  "a process".<br>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Once an individual decides
                                        that it is worth it.. it only
                                        takes a click to accept the
                                        charter and be added to the
                                        mailing list.<br>
                                        <br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>My 2 cents</div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Nnenna<br>
                                      </div>
                                    </div>
                                    <br>
                                    <div class="gmail_quote">
                                      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
                                        Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:36 AM
                                        Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a
                                          href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">suresh@hserus.net</a>>
                                        wrote:<br>
                                      </div>
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                                            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Much
                                                to my surprise I agree
                                                with Parminder.  If
                                                Bestbits is to be wound
                                                up, so be it.</span></p>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>After
                                                which, those from
                                                Bestbits who wish to
                                                caucus in the IGC please
                                                subscribe to the list
                                                and do so.</span></p>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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                                              <p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:
                                                </b><<a
                                                  href="mailto:governance-request@lists.riseup.net"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">governance-request@lists.riseup.net</a>>
                                                on behalf of parminder
                                                <<a
                                                  href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><br>
                                                <b>Reply to: </b>parminder
                                                <<a
                                                  href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><br>
                                                <b>Date: </b>Wednesday,
                                                17 July 2019 at 4:50 pm<br>
                                                <b>To: </b>Arsène
                                                Tungali <<a
                                                  href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>>,
                                                Sheetal Kumar <<a
                                                  href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">sheetal@gp-digital.org</a>><br>
                                                <b>Cc: </b>"<a
                                                  href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>"
                                                <<a
                                                  href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>>,
                                                "Salanieta T.
                                                Tamanikaiwaimaro" <<a
href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>>,
                                                governance <<a
                                                  href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net"
                                                  target="_blank"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>><br>
                                                <b>Subject: </b>Re:
                                                [governance] Reviving
                                                IGC: Merging Bestbits
                                                in, IGF Day zero event
                                                and other subjects</p>
                                            </div>
                                            <div>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                            </div>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal">On
                                              17/07/19 3:25 PM, Arsène
                                              Tungali wrote:<br>
                                              <br>
                                            </p>
                                            <blockquote
                                              style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
                                              <pre>Good point, Sheetal and I agree with you.</pre>
                                              <pre> </pre>
                                              <pre>I had briefly discussed the election issue with Bruna during the last</pre>
                                              <pre>ICANN meeting and we agreed that the best time to conduct co-co</pre>
                                              <pre>elections is right after the merger step is completed, the new charter</pre>
                                              <pre>has been adopted and we have a unified list. I am sure Bruna was</pre>
                                              <pre>planning to report this to the list at some point, but here you are.</pre>
                                            </blockquote>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Arsene</span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I
                                                am not sure what you
                                                mean about a unified
                                                list...</span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">There
                                                is a clear, and rather
                                                easy, way to join the
                                                IGC, and it is up to to
                                                those in Bestbits and
                                                not already in IGC to
                                                take that route if they
                                                want to. Meanwhile we do
                                                welcome all civil
                                                society members adhering
                                                to iGC's charter (rather
                                                than insisting for,
                                                unclear and unstated
                                                reasons, to modify it).
                                              </span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And
                                                there is really no
                                                merger involved here,
                                                even if people loosely
                                                use that language .</span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I
                                                remain astonished about
                                                the repeated talk about
                                                a new IGC charter,
                                                especially as an already
                                                decided thing! What
                                                exactly are you talking
                                                about. </span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And
                                                I am further pained for
                                                you, being still perhaps
                                                an IGC co-coordinator,
                                                not at all responding to
                                                my clear email about how
                                                this elist is the
                                                primary work place for
                                                the IGC, and also an
                                                ex-coordinator's assent
                                                tp the sentiment.</span></p>
                                            <blockquote
                                              style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
                                              <pre> </pre>
                                              <pre>I would suggest we all plan to attend the call and agree on next steps.</pre>
                                            </blockquote>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">You
                                                can make whatever calls
                                                and agree on whatever
                                                steps you have you may
                                                wish to -- that is no
                                                part of IGC's procedure,
                                                and would have no
                                                meaning or consequence
                                                for it.</span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">regards</span></p>
                                            <p><span
                                                style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">parminder
                                              </span></p>
                                            <p> </p>
                                            <blockquote
                                              style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
                                              <pre> </pre>
                                              <pre>Regards,</pre>
                                              <pre>Arsene</pre>
                                              <pre> </pre>
                                              <pre>2019-07-17 11:44 UTC+02:00, Sheetal Kumar <a href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><sheetal@gp-digital.org></a>:</pre>
                                              <blockquote
                                                style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
                                                <pre>Dear all,</pre>
                                                <pre> </pre>
                                                <pre>While the closure of Bestbits is an internal matter for Bestbits, we have</pre>
                                                <pre>agreed for it to be closed and so I'd say any IGC conversations need to</pre>
                                                <pre>take that into account. We're at that point where the closure has been</pre>
                                                <pre>agreed but there are still people on Bestbits who are not on IGC but likely</pre>
                                                <pre>will sign up to be part of the discussions soon.</pre>
                                                <pre> </pre>
                                                <pre>As such, shouldn't we wait for those from Bestbits who want to join to join</pre>
                                                <pre>and we can then get the IGC coordinator elections going? The call to agree</pre>
                                                <pre>next steps and make sure everyone is on the same page is going to be w/c</pre>
                                                <pre>August 5.</pre>
                                                <pre> </pre>
                                                <pre>Best</pre>
                                                <pre>Sheetal</pre>
                                                <pre> </pre>
                                                <pre>On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 06:29, <a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a></pre>
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                                                  <pre>On a more substantive matter -</pre>
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                                                  <pre>Can you also advise us on how progress is going as regards getting the</pre>
                                                  <pre>IGC</pre>
                                                  <pre>Coordinator elections (which were due last January) underway? On June 26</pre>
                                                  <pre>you advised the list that you. would be talking to Arsene and would get</pre>
                                                  <pre>back to the list ASAP.  Do you have an update?</pre>
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                                                  <pre>Ian Peter</pre>
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                                                  <pre>------ Original Message ------</pre>
                                                  <pre>From: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <a href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><governance@lists.riseup.net></a></pre>
                                                  <pre>To: "Parminder" <a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><parminder@itforchange.net></a></pre>
                                                  <pre>Cc: "governance" <a href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><governance@lists.riseup.net></a></pre>
                                                  <pre>Sent: 17/07/2019 2:14:13 PM</pre>
                                                  <pre>Subject: Re: [governance] Reviving IGC: Merging Bestbits in, IGF Day zero</pre>
                                                  <pre>event and other subjects</pre>
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                                                  <pre>Agree with Parminder.</pre>
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                                                  <pre>On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, 5:11 am parminder, <a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><parminder@itforchange.net></a></pre>
                                                  <pre>wrote:</pre>
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                                                    <pre>HI Bruna/ All</pre>
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                                                    <pre>Good morning to all!</pre>
                                                    <pre> </pre>
                                                    <pre>Bestbits' merging into the IGC is their internal matter.</pre>
                                                    <pre> </pre>
                                                    <pre>As for a day zero event at the IGF for the IGC, when do you plan it...</pre>
                                                    <pre>Just Net Coalition has an event post lunch on day zero, and please</pre>
                                                    <pre>ensure</pre>
                                                    <pre>that these do not clash. Thanks.</pre>
                                                    <pre> </pre>
                                                    <pre>While as a secondary or adjunct method call based discussions can be</pre>
                                                    <pre>done</pre>
                                                    <pre>among however wishes to do so, the charter clearly says that the main</pre>
                                                    <pre>and</pre>
                                                    <pre>authoritative space of IGC's work will be this e-list, which I request</pre>
                                                    <pre>everyone's attention to.</pre>
                                                    <pre> </pre>
                                                    <pre>thanks and best regards</pre>
                                                    <pre> </pre>
                                                    <pre>parminder</pre>
                                                    <pre>On 17/07/19 7:32 AM, Bruna Martins dos Santos (via </pre>
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