[governance] Proposal for the 23rd May IGF consultationand advisory group meeting please

[Parminder]

> Does the first one refer to public policy vis. names and numbers?  If so,
> perhaps the first two could be folded together.  

No, it refers to the more general public policy space about Internet issues
that has been discussed often times on this list.. and of course including
names and numbers (EC, FC and all such concepts refer to this space)

I would again suggest
> though that the "original idea and evolution" framing will seem like
> beating
> dead horses to many, so I'd reformulate it in a more forward looking
> manner.

We can keep only the non-dead part, something like - 'ICANN's role and
processes, now and in the emerging scene' with more fine-tuning to follow..

Parminder 


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Parminder Jeet Singh
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Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Drake [mailto:drake at hei.unige.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:56 PM
> To: Governance
> Subject: Re: [governance] Proposal for the 23rd May IGF consultationand
> advisory group meeting please
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 4/26/07 12:22 PM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> > (1)   Global public policy for the Internet-- do we need it, who does it
> and
> > what is it
> >
> > (2)   ICANN - the original idea, its evolution and the its role in the
> > emerging context
> 
> Does the first one refer to public policy vis. names and numbers?  If so,
> perhaps the first two could be folded together.  I would again suggest
> though that the "original idea and evolution" framing will seem like
> beating
> dead horses to many, so I'd reformulate it in a more forward looking
> manner.
> 
> > (3)   What is it at global policy level that really impacts access to
> > Internet, and through it to the knowledge commons, of disadvantaged
> people/
> > groups
> 
> I'm happy enough with the language Milton put forward separately on this,
> which resonates with the development agenda stuff I'm interested in
> (although one could imagine sneaking in a short sentence using that
> phrase).
> 
> > (4) mandate and role of IGF (and/or application of wsis principles in
> extant
> > IG structures).
> >
> > We can work on the precise wording of these (Milton suggested some
> language
> > for 3 and Michael Gurstein has suggest some changes in 3 as well, 4 come
> > from Bill's suggestion, so he may want to contribute more precise
> langauge),
> 
> How about,
> 
> The Tunis Agenda mandated that the IGF should, inter alia, facilitate
> discourse between bodies dealing with different cross-cutting
> international
> public policies and issues that do not fall within the scope of any
> existing
> body; interface with appropriate inter-governmental organizations and
> other
> institutions on matters under their purview;  identify emerging issues,
> bring them to the attention of the relevant bodies and the general public,
> and, where appropriate, make recommendations; and promote and assess,
> on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in Internet
> governance processes. Since these critically important, value-adding
> functions cannot be performed by any existing Internet governance
> mechanism,
> nor by annual conferences built around plenary presentations from invited
> speakers, the purpose of this panel would be to foster an open and
> inclusive
> dialogue on how the IGF could fulfill these and other elements of its
> mandate.
> 
> BD
> 
> 
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