[governance] Chair's paper available

[Adam Peake]

Bertrand, thanks.

A general comment is that the draft is only three and half pages.  It 
is missing sections describing follow-up issues (forum and 
oversight), but even with those sections the total may only be about 
5 pages.  This is helpful as it tells us that comments on specific 
issues will be very short.  Looking at sentences not paragraphs.

The paragraphs that stands out as contentious reads:

    We strive to establish a transition to a new cooperation model 
that helps up [us] implement the "Geneva principles" regarding the 
role of the governments and all stakeholders. Institutional 
arrangements for Internet governance should be founded on a more 
solid democratic, transparent and multilateral basis, with stronger 
emphasis on the public policy interests of all governments, and with 
clarification of the relationships among different actors.

Also, I don't like how CS is defined:

Civil society has also played an important role on Internet matters, 
especially at community level, and should continue to play such a 
role.

Avri has suggested  replacement:

Civil society has played an important role on Internet matters.
This role has ranged from capacity building at the community level to
the contribution of much of the technological innovation and to the
creation of much of the content that makes the Internet what it is
today.  Civil Society should continue to play such a role.

Adam





At 11:22 AM +0200 9/23/05, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:
>The Chair's paper in Group A (Internet governance) is now available 
>on the official site at : 
><http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1962|0>http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1962|0
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>Bertrand
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