[governance] Draft IGC Workshop Proposal

[Parminder]

Hi All

We are taking comments on Bill's drafts. In 48 hours from this post, final
text for consensus will be put up, for another 48 hours, following the
process we had followed in May.

Thanks

Parminder 

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Parminder Jeet Singh
IT for Change, Bangalore
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890
Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055
www.ITforChange.net 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 4:59 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; William Drake
> Subject: Re: [governance] Draft IGC Workshop Proposal
> 
> William Drake wrote:
> > B. Whether some or all of the functions enumerated in the mandate are
> > important, value-adding, activities that are not being performed
> > elsewhere, would benefit the global community, and are uniquely suited
> > to the IGF;
> > C. Operationally practical steps that could be pursued on a consensual,
> > multistakeholder basis by the IGF community in order to perform those
> > functions identified in B, above.
> 
> Is this an invitation for the private sector, Internet technical
> community, OECD countries and Secretariat to say "No, X paragraph of the
> mandate is not important/value-adding/beneficial/uniquely suited, so no
> action is required under C"?
> 
> Perhaps reword this so that it does not presuppose that there are some
> paragraphs of the mandate that should no longer be pursued.  How about
> simply combining points B and C (but remaining close to the agreed
> wording from our February submission) to read:
> 
> B. Since these critically important, value-adding functions cannot be
> performed by any existing Internet governance mechanism, what
> operationally practical steps could be pursued on a consensual,
> multistakeholder basis by the IGF community to fulfil these and other
> elements of its mandate?
> 
> In any case, I will support either wording rather than block agreement.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
> Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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