[governance] Contribution to IGF consultation (was Re: Where...)

[Mawaki Chango]

Great point, Jeremy! and I subscribe to the non-diplomatic
reiteration of what you said. Unless there's some feedback from
the Secretariat and both its staff and nonstaff, our only
contribution should be: why bother? what happened to the inputs
to the previous so-called consultations? People have better
things to do than talk, talk, and talk, to cover the void and
for the self-satisfaction of some people that they are doing
something, and of some other feeling they are part of something.

Mawaki

--- Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu> wrote:

> Jeremy Malcolm ha scritto:
> >> So what are we going to prepare for the IGF Consultation?
> > 
> > Hear hear on xxx.  But on the IGF Consultation, really, what
> is there to 
> > say? 
> 
> I'd subscribe a diplomatical rephrasing of what Jeremy said -
> actually, 
> given the present state of affairs, it seems to me that that
> is the only 
> additional thing that we could say at an IGF consultation,
> apart from 
> what we already said in February. If the subject of the
> consultation is 
> "agenda and program for Rio", everyone already addressed that
> in 
> February, so - as we discussed here with Jeanette a couple of
> weeks ago 
> - one would expect something new to comment upon. Otherwise,
> I'm tempted 
> to make a two-line contribution saying that yes, whatever we
> said in 
> February, we really meant it. Or resubmit the February
> contribution 
> altogether.
> 
> However, if I'm not wrong, there will be a paper by the
> Secretariat (did 
> I get it well?) so when that comes out, if it contains
> anything new, 
> then we might have something new to say.
> 
> Seen from the outside, the entire IGF process seems stuck
> while waiting 
> for someone in New York to reappoint the Chairman, Secretariat
> and AG. I 
> don't know whether any useful message about the composition
> and internal 
> workings of the AG was taken at the February consultation -
> more or less 
> everyone was asking for more transparency and clear guidelines
> on how 
> the AG is formed, what it does, and how it operates. Was there
> any 
> discussion about that in the AG, or is it just waiting to be
> reappointed?
> -- 
> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu  
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