[bestbits] IGF open consultation and MAG meeting December 2014

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 25/09/2014 2:32 am, William Drake wrote:
> 4)  Strengthening the IGF, consistent with the NETmundial statement.
>  Intersessional work to prepare a topic or two that is ‘mature’ enough
> to yield some measure of convergence and could be treated for one day
> in the NM manner could be a very useful way to demonstrate the
> increasing utility of the IGF to the UNGA and others.  There are
> various ideas about how this might be done, and it’d be great to see
> some of them in submissions.

Agreed, but it's not as if these ideas have not already been put forward
ad infinitum over previous years. Consider this Best Bits submission
from 2013, which remains equally relevant today:

http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/

(and a follow-up from 2014, http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/).

The problem is that the suggestions are just ignored.  Of course, it
won't stop us from making them again...

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://eff.org
jmalcolm at eff.org

Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161

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