[governance] Comments related to the WGIG report

[Wolfgang Kleinwächter]

Here are some comments with regard to a Forum Secretariat.
 
Indeed, Avri is right. The Forum idea emerged from the rejection of a proposal to establish a new organisation. There was more or less a consensus, that nobody wanted to have a new buerocracy. The Forum proposal is based on the idea, that the political internet discussion structure should reflect the technical internet infrastructure. The Forum should function like "the root", that is dealing with "Top Level Issues" (TLI), delegating details to the "SLIs" and Third Level Issues, that is to the existing international and intergovernmental global and regional organisations. Such a "mechanism of mechanism" gives you also the opportunity, to add another TLIs and SLIs, if needed, and to link them to the "root" that is the "Forum". 
 
The proposad secretariat should be "ligth handed" and should have no decision making power. Like the IETF model, it would mainly prepare meetings, agendas, managing the website etc. It should be a little bit like the very efficient WGIG  secretariat (3 - 4 people and some volunteers). 
 
Part of this proposal is that the content related work should be supported by existing academic and research networks, which would produce the inpout for the political discussion among the stakeholders. The network could establish an "advisory body" which could work mainly in a virtual way, producing the content related input for the discussion among stakeholders. 
 
Furthermore there is need to develop procedures for the interaction among stakeholders when it goes beyond "policy development" to "adoption of (non-binding) policy  recommendations.  Here there are two main open questions: Who gets a "voting right" and how recommendations are adopted? Rough consensus? Hmmmm?
 
Best
 
wolfgang
 
 
More comments on the CS paper later tomorrow. Just back from holidys. 
 
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Von: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org im Auftrag von Avri Doria
Gesendet: Sa 13.08.2005 22:52
An: WSIS Internet Governance Caucus
Betreff: Re: [governance] Comments related to the WGIG report




On 13 aug 2005, at 15.14, McTim wrote:


> The IETF springs to mind here.  It has only one employee (a recetn
> hire). It has functioned for many years on volunteer efforts.
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well sort of.  there has been a secretariat for years of several 
people who do everything from planning meeting logistics, posting 
documents to the draft directory, and myriad other tasks that allow 
the volunteers to work on ietf issues.  around 5-6 people for a while 
now.

and that is sort of what i see a secretariat as doing, allowing the 
other folks to volunteer to do work,  i.e. facilitation.  but do 
think there has to be a small group doing this full time as a job.

a.

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