[governance] Going forward - Role of the governance caucus [3 options]

[Milton Mueller]

Bill:
A very good shaping of the options. I am surprised at how little follow up there has been to your framing of the three options so I will jump in.

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> 03/03/06 11:25 AM >>>
>it would make no sense to try to cram everything from community 
>networking to FLOSS and beyond into the IG framework.  
The people and organizations involved would quickly become 
>very frustrated.

I agree with this, and again wish to make it clear that by suggesting that the IGC become "the plenary" I meant the plenary for IG issues and problems in CS, not for all of WSIS. 


>1.  Status Quo Plus.  Try to strengthen the group and position it to
>actually be able to agree on common positions, as we used to do, and
>represent them in IGF and beyond.  Prior efforts to start conversations

Your description of this option made it seem as if Status quo plus is 
impossible, or too burdensome to be worth trying. 

I wonder whether a "Status Quo Plus Minus" is possible: in which we 
give the caucus a capacity to elect/select chairs, and delegate decision 
making responsibility to them, but do not develop a common set of positions on
policy issues but simply attempt to be a vehicle for the representations of CS
in IGF-related activities. E.g., we elect chairs who develop democratic
procedures  to nominate people to serve on IGF-related program committees,
councils, etc.



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