[bestbits] CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation - input on mechanisms required

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 10/01/14 06:44, Marilia Maciel wrote:
> Thank you for the information and for seeking input from this broader
> group.
> I have not followed the work of the WGEC as closely as I would like
> to, therefore I have a doubt regarding the framing of this
> consultation you brought to our attention. The attached e-mail asks to
> identify "mechanisms" (plural, and I read this is fora) where enhanced
> cooperation exists.

You're right that this is incongruous, however Phil only mentions
"enhanced cooperation" in the introductory paragraph of his email, which
I take as an individual form of words from him, rather than as part of
the framing of the task for the correspondence group that the WGEC has
chosen.  Below that - presumably approved by the WGEC - it just talks
about "examples of where some or all stakeholders in their broadest
sense…have engaged in working together".  We should probably couch any
response in terms that makes it clear that we are not necessarily
accepting that the above is an adequate or specific enough definition of
enhanced cooperation.

I also queried on the list as to why there was no scope for the
correspondence group to suggest ways of filling the gaps where enhanced
cooperation is not taking place.  This seems to be a more important
issue.  Why do you need to crowdsource the production of a list of areas
where there are no gaps?  A single expert could do that!  The reason for
a correspondence group, I would have thought, would be to gather
different opinions about the best way of dealing with the areas where
there are gaps.  So I'm a bit worried about where this process is going.

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