[governance] IGC's questions to the IGF

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Adam Peake wrote:
> Petitioning seems to miss the whole point of IGF. It's Groundhog Day and 
> we're at a WSIS prepcom?

Doesn't really bother me if it's framed as a petition or something else, 
but the main benefit of a petition is that we have an idea of how many 
people are in agreement, and that one or two objectors within IGC aren't 
going to break it.

> Instead ask questions, make suggestions. Write them down now, send them 
> to the secretariat.

Most of the time that is to send them into a very deep black hole (I 
speak from experience).

> Ask MAG members to give them to moderators of 
> sessions (I promise to do what I can... with minimal editorial. But do 
> cut point 6 :-)  Blog the comments and hope they are picked up as part 
> of remote participation/"blogsphere".  etc.

Doing that too (in the past week I've blogged on CircleID, at 
IGFWatch.org, at igf2006.info, commented on other blogs and mailing 
lists, recorded a 5 minute video, and I forget what else).  I still 
think a petition has certain advantages these don't.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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