[governance] IGC statement to IGF MAG - content

[Vittorio Bertola]

Parminder ha scritto:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> We are taking inputs on the four topic areas for the main sessions (open for
> next 24 hours before consolidation),

Given how you phrase this call, I have to point out that, personally, I 
find the most crucial issues for the future of the Internet at the 
crossings of IPR, consumer protection and antitrust efforts - including 
net neutrality - so, with all due respect to the four proposed themes 
(and support for their importance), I would not support a request that 
would imply that these other matters are not being discussed any more or 
are relegated to second tier.

I think that a good IGF structure would still envisage four main 
sessions (plus, I think, one for the cross-cutting issues and one for 
its own existential crises) and then deal with specific sub-themes 
either in workshops or in additional topical sessions. It's a matter of 
balance - of course you shouldn't be so vague that nothing specific 
comes out of it (as in Athens, even if a lot, in the end, came out 
through coalitions) but you shouldn't also be so narrow that most issues 
are disregarded.

Apart from this, I think that putting out a request to discuss four and 
only four topics, of which one pertains to access, zero to openness, 
zero to security and zero to diversity, would make us look a bit out of 
sync. Ok, the draft schedule is a draft, but I don't see the IGF getting 
rid of the themed structure just because we put out a confused request 
to do so. If we want to get our issues discussed, we'd better be a bit 
smarter and in line with the flow.
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