[governance] a caveat on theme submissions

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Dear Milton,

There is a slight difference here : the theme submissions will not only be
reviewed by the secretariat, but by the MAG (which will be a
multi-stakeholder body) and discussed in the open consultations (no
precisions on which comes first in terms of timing).

On how to transmit them : my preference is to send them in batch, trough the
caucus,but under the name of the submitters at that stage. Further
individual or caucus endorsement can come in the comments / review process
later on.

Best

Bertrand


On 4/1/06, Milton Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>
> By the way, if the comments on the structure of the MAG are any guide, it
> won't make a lot of difference how we frame our submissions. The IGF
> Secertariat obviously did not pay a lot of attention to the public comments
> last time. If one reads ALL the published comments, nearly all of them call
> for a small, 12-15 person MAG. Not a single one calls for a larger, 40
> person MAG. And yet, what did we get? A 40-person MAG.
>
> I hope the IGF secretariat understands the long term consequences of
> ignoring public comment on the record to favor private, behind-the-scenes
> negotiations with favored stakeholders. ICANN provides a precedent: after a
> while, no one will take the process seriously and there will be no quality
> comments.
>
> Dr. Milton Mueller
> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> http://www.digital-convergence.org
> http://www.internetgovernance.org
>
> >>> "William Drake" <drake at hei.unige.ch> 03/31/06 9:08 AM >>>
> Hi,
>
> As it's 4pm in Geneva and it didn't appear that there'd be movement to
> consolidate and submit all the theme proposals today, I called the IGF
> office.  Markus is away but Chengetai was there.  There's no rush, they are
> zen and would be happy to receive proposals at the beginning of next week.
>
> Over the weekend it might be good to clarify the framing of the
> submissions.  Should they be presented as individual submissions,
> submissions 'by members of the caucus,' (suitably ambiguous), submissions of
> the caucus...?  In one file, or many, in standardized format or why bother,
> etc?  In any event I think they'd prefer PDFs to emails...
>
> Bye,
>
> BD
>
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