[bestbits] Report back with some options for open/closed lists

[McTim]

Hi,


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Deborah Brown <deborah at accessnow.org>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Taking into account the debate here about using a civil society only list
> for strategic discussions, I'm reporting back from some discussions among
> the interim steering committee* on different options for moving forward.
> Here are the some options we came up with:
>
>    1. Everything on the public list (i.e. status quo)
>
>

I prefer #1

>
>    1. Using the open list as the default, and have the option of moving
>    strategic conversations to the private list
>    2. Using the open list as the default, and starting issue-specific
>    lists for strategic discussions among civil society. This would follow the
>    model of the [EC] list that was used to prepare Best Bits' submission to
>    WGEC (welcoming suggestions to improve that model). Drafting and strategic
>    discussions took place on the closed list and were reported back to the
>    main list.
>
> Most of us on steering prefer option 3, but we could not come to an
> agreement on whether or not the archives of emails on civil society list
> should be public or only available to the members of the list. The benefits
> of having public archives would be  transparency and avoiding the exclusion
> of anyone who wanted to join the list but was not aware of it. The drawback
> would be that public archives would diminish the value of the list as a
> private space for civil society to strategize.
>


We should be all about cooperation, collaboration, communication.  Having a
private list seems to suggest that we are in opposition to other
stakeholder groups, or at least that we need to hide something from them.
 They should know that we stand for the public interest.  I just don't
think we have anything to hide.

Plus, I'm already on dozens of IG mailing lists as it is, I'd rather not
add anymore just to keep up with what is going on.

Regards,

McTim
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