Fwd: [governance] IGF at the ICANN meeting

[Izumi AIZU]

Just to follow,

Markus said Feb 13 date for Open Consultation of IGF is tentative,
subject to UN calender to be decided at the General Assembly shortly.

izumi

2006/12/4, Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org>:
> All,
>
> I'm in the Sao Paulo ICANN meeting, and one of the agenda items today
> for the "plenary" (Public Forum) was a report from the IGF. At a certain
> point, Ayesha Hassan from ICC (business) and Lynn St. Amour from ISOC
> (technical community) were invited to the podium to give a "stakeholder
> perspective" on the IGF, and so I felt obliged to grab the mike and
> politely say that, hey, there is another stakeholder in the discussion,
> i.e. civil society, and add some positive notes on how good it was to
> start talking to each other in Athens, provided that sooner or later we
> find a way to release some practical results out of the IGF process.
> Several other caucus members took the floor afterwards.
>
> Separately, I had a chat with Markus, who confirmed to me that the Feb
> 13th meeting is meant to wrap-up Athens and discuss how to organize the
> Rio meeting, and specifically whether to have a new MAG, given that the
> current one had a mandate clearly limited to Athens and will expire
> after the wrap-up. We should develop a proposal / position to be
> released for the February meeting, possibly accompanied by informal
> discussion with other constituencies as well.
> --
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
>
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