[governance] IGC Participation

[Avri Doria]

Hi Danny,

thank for your note and the points in it. In time i might want to  
comment on several but did want to address this point which was  
directed at me.


On 22 apr 2006, at 19.09, Danny Butt wrote:

>
> * I think that it might be more workable for you in the short term if
> your coordinating role (e.g. making the call on "consensus") is
> limited to and focussed on the IGC processes, rather than the content
> of IGC submissions themselves. I still think the IGC is too diverse
> (or *should be* too diverse if it's even roughly representative) to
> find agreement on many substantive issues, as Meryem suggests. So I
> am reading your offer as being primarily to lead us through our own
> governance reform, and that the various mechanisms for participation
> in IGF etc. will come out of that. Is that in line with your and
> others thinking Avri?


Yes, i think most of the coordination during the interim period would  
involve IGC mission, methods and process.  And while it is possible,  
depending on how long it takes us to come to closure on these issues  
that we could have substantive work to do, i do not believe there is  
any means by which anyone, myself included, can call consensus in  
this group at the moment - except by establishing an ad-hoc process  
to try and determine full consensus.  so if there were something  
substantive that needed to be done during the, hopefully short,  
interim period when i was a single coordinator, i would hope we could  
develop an ad-hoc process by which to do the work - and i am sure i  
would suggest something.  at the moment it looks like the schedule is  
clear until after the May consultations at least.

so yes, my thinking is in line with your suggestion, though i would  
tend to see it as coordinating our efforts through the period as  
opposed to leading through the period.  Being leader, i.e. one who  
leads, has so many different connotations in so many cultures that i  
would want to avoid the use of that word in reference to myself.

and as i indicated in another email, i would hope the IGC would be in  
a position to pick a second co-coordinator  within a relatively short  
time right after we figure out what our processes etc.

thanks
a.

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