[bestbits] Proposed constructive contribution towards enhanced cooperation post-WTPF

[Jeremy Malcolm]

As you know, yesterday the WTPF concluded without a resolution on this proposal by Brazil titled "Operationalizing the role of Government in the multi-stakeholder framework for Internet Governance":

http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13-C-0005/en
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTewmlgXNTRYuPvIWylV2K39owgXH8st642I7IaXjh0/edit

Two of the options for what could happen to it instead were either that it could go to the ITU's CWG Internet which is a government-only group that meets in a closed format with open consultations, or that it could go to the IGF.  The objection raised to the latter option was that the IGF does not produce outputs.

I think that it might be useful for us to quickly produce a note for next week's IGF to propose a method for discussing the resolution in a more output-oriented way, that could be an alternative to its discussion at the CWG Internet (but would explicitly not prevent it from also being discussed at the CSTD WG EC, given that it is also relatively multi-stakeholder).  This would not require the wholesale reform of the IGF, but would be more of a trial run, to demonstrate what is possible - and in an instance where there is a tangible need to do so.

I'm floating my intention to produce a first draft of this, which would then be open for comments and amendments.  In our usual fashion, anyone could endorse it if they agreed.  If one of us will be in Geneva for the MAG meeting and is willing to do so, they could introduce it there.  (I'm starting this on the Best Bits list rather than the IGC list because the latter is a bit dysfunctional at the moment, but once a draft is ready we'll post it there too.)

What do you think?

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