[governance] IGF workshop proposals

[Vittorio Bertola]

Adam Peake ha scritto:
> <http://info.intgovforum.org/wsl.php>
> 
> IGF Workshop proposals received by the August 24 deadline.  May be a
> couple more to come.
> 
> 34 proposals in total -- I wished there's been a few more, but
> understand the difficulties involved in putting togther a proposal.

For example - to bring my personal experience - I and Robin succeeded in 
putting together a proposal on the Internet Bill of Rights, but I could 
not manage to submit a proposal on trusted computing, due to the 
difficulty to find panelists, supporters etc. during summer time and in 
my spare time, and with the apparent risk that either you manage to find 
plenty of sponsors, prove your credibility and budget, etc, or your 
proposal will be rejected and all your efforts will have been wasted.

But when I go out and discuss this, many say "how come you'll not be 
talking about trusted computing, it's a hot issue, it's unbelievable 
that such a matter can be ignored", etc. And I'm sure that if we set up 
a room for that in Athens, many would show up and have a lively and 
interesting discussion. So I'm wondering whether there could be the 
opportunity to set up informal discussions with somewhat softer 
requirements than those for workshops, especially if there will be free 
slots remaining.

In this case, I raise my hand again for trusted computing, which is 
quite hot in the European tech scene; also, network neutrality, which 
AFAIK is really hot in the US, seems to be missing, isn't it?

In general, I think it would be better to cover all important issues, 
even if in some cases with less perfect events, than have 30 great 
events of which 20 are, say, on meta-governance issues. If I may, as an 
engineer, at a first glance there seems to be too much sky-high 
pondering and not enough technology in this event, but perhaps that's 
normal given the environment. However, maybe you could try to rebalance 
things a little using any spare slots remaining.

I strongly support the general idea that you should apply your criteria 
independently from the numbers. I refrained to submit my TC workshop 
proposal because I couldn't make it sufficiently strong, and now I see 
even weaker and less diverse proposals in the list. Or if you really 
want to accept some of them - for example, the WBU "content rights" 
proposal, which, as it is now, really worries me - you should ensure 
that the workshop is broadened and also includes the other points of 
view on the matter! I am sure there would be many of us willing to join 
and help balancing unbalanced workshops, if their current proposers 
accepted the idea.
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vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
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