[bestbits] [governance] Re: NMI and the Brazilian CGI.br

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Am 23.11.14 02:23, schrieb Louis Pouzin (well):
> Hi all,

> NetMundial was a similar scenario. The high level committee members
> never got any contact from the brazilian chair. ICANN had already taken
> over.

Someone asked me to comment on this since I also was a member of the 
High Level Committee. So, I comment. According to my memory (and email 
archive) what Louis says is not true.

The Executive Committee sent a draft for the HLMC to comment on. Some 
HLMC members commented, others didn't but complained instead about the 
lack of process. There was a lack of process, true, but this does not 
mean that ICANN had taken over. On the contrary, there was plenty of 
opportunity for us to influence and shape both the process and the draft 
documents.

Lack of process is not always a bad thing. In the case of NM it provided 
significant opportunities for CS to assume responsibility and contribute 
to the draft documents. Adam but also Marilia were among the people who 
contributed a lot to the drafts. The 'ICANN dominates the world' kind of 
narrative does not do justice to the efforts of CS people in this process.

jeanette


>
> This WEF/ICANN nebulous gobbledygook smacks of another railroading to
> capture some opponents to the US business predator strategy. Let's see
> what happens to Brazil.
>    .
> Louis
> - - -
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:34 PM, <parminder at itforchange.net
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Dear members of CGI.Br and signatories of the appeal for support to the
>     ICANN-WEF global IG  Initiative;
>     [snip]
>