[governance] Way forward

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

thanks for starting the ball rolling on this.

I do think we need a coordinator (or set of coordinators) to take us  
through this interim process - between the time the current term of  
Jeanette and Adam ends (Friday) and the time we have figured out our  
charter and membership conditions - assuming we decide to have  
membership conditions and caucus rules and procedures.

I think that the coordinators for this period should be people who  
declare they will not serve as coordinators immediately after the  
interim so there can be no suspicion that they are twisting the  
process to their advantage.

I am personally fine with the current coordinators staying in the  
roles if they have no intention of continuing in the roles after the  
interim period.  If on the other hand, they would like to be  
considered for the future coordinator roles, then i think they should  
step down and we should find new victims.

As for a drafting group, that always seems to be a problem with this  
group.  We might leave it open and just use the Wiki that was set  
up.  I think one of more drafting teams could self appoint and could  
submit candidate text for consideration.

BTW: while the Forum will not start soon, the discussions on how it  
is to be created will.  I think we should be ready to deal with this  
when it happens.  So I think there is a hurry and I think that we  
should try to resolve these issues quickly, for example in 2-3 weeks  
from the end of the summit.  this will involve working to a schedule,  
but think we could do it if we wanted to.

a.


On 16 nov 2005, at 17.33, Izumi AIZU wrote:

> One of the items we need to discuss and decide today, tomorrow
> and onwards is the "way forward", I hope that most of us will agree  
> with.
>
> Now that "Internet Governance Forum" is agreed to setup sometime
> next year, I also hope that most of us will also agree that
> we should continue our work as (CS) Internet Governance Caucus.
>
> In order to be effectively involved with the forthcoming activities
> around forum, and potentially the new process, I think we need
> a better working process as again most, if not all, of us will agree.
>
> I think it may be a mistake just to consider "who" should be
> the next co-coordinators, or ask the current ones to continue,
> and let them take care of most of our business without agreed
> structure and method, rather, I think we should consider how
> we organize ourselves together.
>
> For that, perhaps, we may need to organize a small working
> group, task them to write up a draft charter, a light, but
> clear rules and guidelines to conduct our business, including
> definition of the membership, setup working strucgture (say
> council or steering group or whatever), together with Chair/
> Coordinator and secretariat functions. Then we will discuss
> about this draft, hopefully to reach good consensus in the
> end, and then start to more formally organize it.
>
> The forum itself will not start that soon, but the formation
> process will begin shortly, and taking advantage of the time we
> have between now and the creation of Forum, I hope we
> can have a reasonable work to review and improve our work
> in that way.
>
> This is just a suggestion intending to start the discussion
> not only here in Tunis but all of our online colleagues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> izumi
>
>
>
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