[governance] CONSENSUS CALL - Statement for the IGF consultations

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Dear All

Me think that apart from some proper editing work to be done {line 1
of paragraph 10 must be taken care of with a peoper choice between its
and the in the 'itsthe' of the last wordings of that line}, I have no
alternative but okaying the statement.

Nyangkwe


On 2/12/07, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> VB
>
> On 2/10/07, Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am attaching the (expectedly) final version of our statement for
> > Tuesday, and launching a formal consensus call on it.
>
> I am ok with the statement generally....
>
> >
> > The only changes in this version, in respect to the one posted a few
> > hours ago, are Ken's note on the number of CS members (which became
> > "about five" from "five or less")
>
> (except for the nit in the other thread about this).
>
> >
> > Separately, I am still asking people to state consensus or opposition
> > (if having a clear opinion) on the addition of the sentence "We think
> > that, as per comma (j) of the IGF mandate, the legal nature and working
> > structure of ICANN should be among the matters discussed in Rio, as long
> > as this does not prevent the IGF from paying adequate attention to all
> > the other themes.", in replacement of "Inside civil society, there are
> > different points of view about this matter;", in the second-last para.
>
> I am strongly opposed to this change for a number of reasons;
>
> a) j is a pretty flimsy rationale IMO for talking about "the legal
> nature and working
> structure". I just can't make that leap myself.
>
> b) qualifying it with the caveat about it not being distracting is a
> little strange, as we know from past experience that it is the black
> hole of discussion topics.
>
> c) The mandate is quite clear about being hands off ICANN et. al., so
> it's discussion without any possibility of resolution.  Now, if the
> intent is to do capacity building, then I'd be happy to lead a
> discussion on critical resource distribution theory and practice.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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