[bestbits] [governance] Whether to participate in NETmundial Initiative - RFC

[Carlos Afonso]

Jeremy, your scenario is a reasonable one, but can we really make the 
IGF "mature" to that point? We do need to try hard though.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 11/20/14 17:14, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 20/11/2014 11:08 am, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:56:43 -0200
>> Carlos Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>   > Carlos, can you share information about plans to reopen the text
>>>   > for discussion?
>>>
>>> With pleasure: it is called NETmundial Initiative.
>> Is it somehow / somewhere officially stated that the NMI plan includes
>> reopening the São Paulo text for discussion?
>>
>> If so, I'd appreciate a pointer, as I would have in that case missed
>> something of importance (even though I have been trying to observe this
>> closely.)
>
> This was a question that I've asked during both of the consultations,
> and got an equivocal answer suggesting that while it wasn't ruled out
> that there could be more work on text development, this was not foremost
> in peoples' minds.
>
> Personally I would much rather that the IGF developed the capacity to
> produce textual recommendations, and that the NETmundial Initiative
> stuck to simply implementation of principles agreed elsewhere.  And
> adopted a different name so as not to mislead people that it was a
> continuation of the NETmundial meeting with the legitimacy to develop
> principles.
>
>
>
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