[governance] Comments related to the WGIG report

[Carlos Afonso]

Excellent points, Milton, particularly to show the actual costs of 
effective forum-like organizations such as the IETF. No mechanism to 
deal with a challenge of such complexity can run effectively without 
executive/administrative support (to take another, very immediate 
example, the WGIG itself could not). At a minimum for accountability 
reasons, as the global forum might take on several responsibilities with 
the actual implementation of a global governance system.

The forum issue is becoming a significant focal point of discussion -- 
the WGIG itself has inserted a global forum in all its four models, all 
of them with just an advisory role, but this can evolve from now to 
Tunis. I envision a scenario in which Tunis approves the immediate 
creation of a global forum having as very short term tasks the 
formulation of its operating/procedural rules and the proposition of an 
international Internet governance convention/framework/agreement.

frt rgds

--c.a.

Milton Mueller wrote:

>>>>McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> 08/13/05 3:14 PM >>>
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>[arguing that the Forum does not need a Secretariat]
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>>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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>I'm sorry, but this is a factual error. The Corporation for National
>Research Initiatives has served as the IETF Secretariat for many years,
>and has recieved grant money from the USG in part because of that
>function. IETF had a budget of about $2 million per year during this
>period.
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>Additionally, NSF and DARPA supported the RFC Editor function with
>grant money during the most important years of the IETF's development
>(1987-1997). At the present time, the Internet Society (ISOC) is
>receiving over $3 million in contributions from PIR (the .org registry)
>to support IETF activities. 
>
>People who say the Forum doesn't need a secretariat are, I suspect,
>people who don't really care whether we have a Forum or not. 
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>--MM
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