[governance] latest canadian proposal on the forum

[Lee McKnight]

Ralf,

I agree with your diagnosis re the forum, but am doubtful on the next
poiint re oversight.

So my tactical advice is focus on molding the forum in a direction and
form acceptable to CS.

Re oversight, that is a separate issue and decoupled from the forum
discussion.  USG concessions there at this stage are in my estimation
unlikely, and in any case the Rest of the world does not have a coherent
alternative on the table as yet. Definitely CS is getting closer to
sorting the issues but consensus? Well that feels like it is still some
way off.  

So last tactical advice, focus on the process getting from here to
there post-wsis eg the multistaekholder framework convention. Good
luck!

Lee

Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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>>> Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> 11/14/2005 4:11 PM >>>
Milton Mueller wrote:
> The idea that ISOC should organize and manage the forum is a 
> non-starter. Forget about it. That's basically the same as saying
that 
> ICANN and the U.S. private sector should organize and manage it.

It should be clear that this new discussion about the forum being
located
at ISOC etc. is just an attempt to distract from the oversight issue.
The 
US goverment clearly wants to stock up on things they can give up later
in 
exchange for the oversight staying where it is.

Any tactical ideas how to deal with this without just plaing along?

Ralf
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