[governance] [WSIS CS-Plenary] slight postponement oftoday's caucus meeting

[carlos a. afonso]

People,

Sorry for not being physically more present -- trying to work with the
Brazilians as the events unravel at subcommittee A, which is the reason
of my earlier arrival in Geneva.

I would like to express my concern (which is the concern of the
Brazilian NGOs working on Internet/ICT governance issues as well, like
INDECS, the Digital TV civil society caucus, CDI-PE, Rits, the
Softwarelivre.org group, several other members of the CRIS-Brasil
campaign and so on) that, contrary to what the caucus managed to present
in subcomm B (a unified statement built by a consensus effort, albeit in
a rush, thanks to the great work of the Ralf-Bertrand duo among others),
our presentation in subcomm A was piecemeal and the specific part on
Internet governance mechanisms not based on consensus.

I am afraid the presentation by Bill Drake is based on a vision which is
not shared by many civil society organizations. We understand we do not
want a "revolution" -- and this is mostly consensus -- but we need some
significant changes in the mechanisms, first, to consider the set of
priority issues which are not in the current ICANN-based system, and
second, to take into account the need for practical actions regarding
paragraph 48 of the WGIG report, among other reasons. If we endorse the
statement as a consensus, we are in practice almost doing what ICANN
wants us to do, ie., defend the creation of an innocuous
consultative/advisory forum which might never be really taken seriously.

I understand the opening statement by Adam tried to show this did not
represent consensus, but I did a survey later on among Southern
delegates (Brazil, India, Iran, Cuba among others) and most of them
understood otherwise. Many of these delegates also wrongly associate
model 2 of the WGIG report with the civil society caucus -- we must
recall model 2 was built under the influence of ICANN-related people and
business reps in the WGIG. Do we really want this perception to stay?
What will be our consensus position?

Just to make clear, my position (to which the Brazilian position has
basically converged) was expressed in my "parallel" paper written during
the last months of the WGIG. What are the other positions in the caucus
on this which we could analyze and try to build a consolidated/consensus
position?

Or we just leave things as they are?

fraternal regards

--c.a.

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Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
Rua Guilhermina Guinle, 272 - sexto andar
22270-060 Rio de Janeiro Brasil
tel +55-21-2527-5494
fax +55-21-2527-5460
http://www.rits.org.br
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de>
To: WSIS Internet Governance Caucus <governance at lists.cpsr.org>,
plenary at wsis-cs.org, Robert Guerra <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>, Adam
Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:07:12 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] slight postponement oftoday's  caucus meeting

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> Hi everyone, unfortunately, weh need to postpone the IG caucus
> meeting 
> for 40 minutes. I would suggest we start at 3.10 pm in room E 30/56.
> The 
> reason is that Adam and I have been asked to attend the bureau
> meeting 
> today.
> 
> Please spread the word to those who might not have Internet access
> this 
> morning so that we avoid people coming in vain and disappear again.
> 
> Sorry again, hopefully see you at 3.10 pm then.
> 
> jeanette
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