[governance] APC - Forum draft?

[Jeanette Hofmann]

William Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>

Bill,

what a constructive contribution!

> As I've said before, probably to the point of being boring, as far as I
> know, the idea of the forum came from within the caucus.  [...]

So it's not hubris to say
> that this is a definable CS contribution to the process (there are
> others), one that has now been embraced by governments and is likely to
> happen.  As such, I think it would be nuts for the caucus not to submit
> its own language supporting onr og its own main contributions. 

I agree.

  All we'd
> have to do it take the WGIG response text and add a few words to put it
> into the form of "we resolve to create" and we'd be done.  We could do
> this on the spot Sunday.

So, why don't you give it a try? The earlier a new draft is posted on 
the list the better.
> 
   We should be putting
> forward something on the order of 3-4 paragraphs max in the style they
> need.  With some small on site tweakings of our previously agreed text, we
> could have that, and if we don't go far beyond what was previously agreed,
> it presumably wouldn't be too problematic for those not in attendance.

I wouldn't be so optimistic about this latter point. One of the major 
problems we've had in the last weeks is that the membership of the 
caucus is changing. While we all welcome this, it makes it difficult to 
refer to former consensus on specific wordings.
> 
> One final point---my conversations with government and IO people would
> suggest that in terms of the numbers discussion between Anriette, Vittorio
> and others, there's a pretty strong consensus for it being a completely
> open, y'all come forum modeled on the WGIG open consultations (as
> suggested in the WGIG report), not a smaller selected group.  

I liked Lee's idea to specifically endorse those parts of the APC text 
we like and to ignore those that are controversial.
jeanette


> 
> Best,
> 
> Bill
> 
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