[governance] Revised version of letter to IGF re Web site

[Adam Peake]

At 1:36 PM +0100 11/15/06, Ralf Bendrath wrote:
>Nice letter. Thanks, Jeremy and Kieren.
>
>One suggestion: Give one or two more concrete examples. An obvious 
>one is the space for dynamic coalitions. It would be great to have 
>e.g. an URL like <http://coalitions.intgovforum.org/privacy/> for 
>the dynamic coalition on privacy, where we would have CMS, wiki and 
>FTP access for coalition coordinators or members.


My guess --and this is just a personal opinion, I have no insight on 
this from any discussion in the advisory group-- is that the requests 
in the letter will be too much at the moment.

To have the coalitions listed on the IGF site and associated with the 
IGF is enough for now.  You can brand them as IGF (just as the 
workshops took on the brand.)  This is a great success (and not so 
easily achieved.)  The IGF is on track to become what people dreamed 
of it -- so let it grow, but don't rub our vision and success in 
other stakeholders faces.

Asking for a single website now is most likely asking for too much. 
Let the coalitions grow, they will be successful and will slowly come 
in from this arms length relationship with the formal process.

By all means offer to help. Why not just leave it at that.  A letter 
of thanks to the secretariat and Mr Desai, and offer the caucus' 
support and help, particularly in developing the website and online 
tools.  See what the reply is and take it from there.

Think Ralf may be right about official sounding letters requiring 
official replies.  It's still the UN.

Adam




>I am not a techie, so I won't volunteer to offer the service here, 
>but I have some demand right now as a coalition bootstrapper.
>
>One more hint: In addition to sending letters, people can just drop 
>a private mail to or even call Markus Kummer. An official letter 
>needs an official response, which sometimes can complicate things. 
>(But this specific letter should not be a problem in that regard.)
>
>Best, Ralf
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