[bestbits] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations

[Anne Jellema]

Dear Norbert,
I have forwarded your request to the list members and I am waiting for
their replies.
Best
anne

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Many thanks, Anne, for your detailed response and explanation.
>
> I would like to hereby request permission review the archive. I'm
> willing to promise to not disclose or discuss with any third parties
> any information of the kind that you have referred to below as being
> sensitive and the reason for not having a fully open archive, unless
> and until said information also becomes available to me through some
> other channel (such as e.g. WCITleaks.) [Nota bene my willingness to
> agree in this particular situation to such a non-disclosure commitment
> should not be read as an agreement in principle to some BestBits type
> processes being less than fully open. It's just because I don't intend
> to start a general public discussion of that issue of openness at the
> current point in time.]
>
> In case an introduction is needed: I'm a German citizen, living in
> Switzerland since a long time, and I'm an advocate for human rights and
> Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). I've participated in many Internet
> governance related discourses since a long time, for example as a
> participant in the DRUMS working group at IETF which led to RFCs 2821
> and 2822, as a participant of the first two BestBits meetings (but not
> the most recent one), as the initiator of the process that led to the
> formation of the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG), and more
> recently as a co-convenor of the Just Net Coalition (JNC).
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:51:11 +0200
> Anne Jellema <anne at webfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > The pre-IGF BB meeting in Istanbul (report on the BB website) agreed
> > on the creation of three fluid working groups. Carolina's note on the
> > outcomes of this meeting, sent to the Best Bits list on 9 September,
> > outlined these groups and who to contact if you wanted to join.
> > Snippet below:
> >
> >
> > >    - *ITU working group:* A group of volunteers (see the list in
> > > the BB report) has been formed. If you'd like to join, please
> > > contact Anne Jellema <anne at webfoundation.org> and myself.
> > >
> > >
> >  About 30 people requested to join the ITU working group, were duly
> > added and introduced themselves to the group; no one who asked was
> > turned down.
> >
> > The group decided not to open its email list archive. Many of the
> > group members are participating in government delegations, which is a
> > valuable source of information and intelligence that CS needs for
> > effective advocacy (especially in the ITU context where access to
> > documents is highly restricted), but requires that you accept a duty
> > to treat that information with great care. Those on delegations felt
> > that there was some of this information that they could responsibly
> > share with a group of 30 people whose identities, affiliations and
> > reasons for participating in the group they knew, but not with an
> > open mailing list of 370 people.
> >
> > Second, as mentioned above and also stressed in my note to the list
> > the other day, this was a group of volunteers who prepared a
> > statement and opened it to the wider BB list for endorsement (or
> > not). The statement has not been issued in the name of "civil
> > society" or "Best Bits" but only in the name of the organisations who
> > chose to sign it.
> >
> > I hope that answers your questions but feel free to follow up.
> >
> > Best,
> > Anne
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:38:08 +0200
> > > Anne Jellema <anne at webfoundation.org> wrote on the BestBits list:
> > >
> > > > As you know, a fluid working group was formed after the IGF to
> > > > try to come up with joint recommendations for the ITU Plenipot.
> > >
> > > May I ask some questions about this?:
> > >
> > > Was this an open process which any interested civil society person
> > > would have been accepted to join upon request?
> > >
> > > Are there publicly accessible mailing list archives somewhere?
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Norbert
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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