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[parminder]

On Tuesday 16 October 2012 12:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

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>       o For the ITU statement, William Drake is facilitating it and is
>         proposing a text focusing on substantive issues, which will be
>         submitted to the ITU public comment process on 3 November.
>       o For the Internet governance principles, Wolfgang
>         Kleinwächter's current proposal is that we use the existing
>         text that APC and others worked on for the Council of Europe,
>         which is this one: http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199.
>

All,

I remain sceptical of how this exercise is going to be done and 
concluded. for a long time I believed that we were looking at 
substantive Internet principles but now I see we are only taking about 
procedural principles for IG. First of all I think we need to do 
substantive principles first, and the IRP document is the most 
extensively worked on. Indeed there has been a discussion on this list 
to use that as the base doc. I dont think we would be able to do a new 
document of procedural principles on IG in this short time. There are 
deep differences involved, as for instance the recent discussion on the 
IGC list on democracy versus multistakeholderism showed. It will be 
wrong to roadroller these differences and come up with a document in 
this short while. To give you a feel of what I am talking about - I will 
like to put democratic before multistakeholder in any procedural 
document on IG - which btw is meant to cover local to national to global 
levels. Do all agree to this proposition here? Also I will like to speak 
about funding issues around IG institutions, and need for neutral public 
funding for them. There are many such issues. I am happy to discuss 
them, here and/or at the workshop. But lets not hurry with something in 
the name of civil society.

On the other hand, if we just want to give a list of preachments to the 
ITU on how should be conduct its business, I am game for it. That is 
much more doable.

Jeremy, can we have a list of people on this elist, and those who are 
now confirmed to attend the meeting. Thanks.

parminder



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