[governance] Speakers for IGF - new faces?

[veni markovski]

Vittorio, see below

At 19:31 9/20/2007  +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>Adam Peake ha scritto:
>>It is not at all pleasing to write "We have no money to bring 
>>anyone, the meeting starts in 8 weeks.  Suggest only recommending 
>>people who are going to be there (or have a very good chance of 
>>being there.)" This situation should not have been allowed to happen.
>
>You mean we could have started earlier? Yes we could, but alas, up 
>to one month ago there was not even an AG... and the funding issue 
>won't go away (unless we start focusing on how to make the IGF 
>better and stronger, which is one of the objectives of our 
>workshop). I think that Rio will suffer from "still growing up" even 
>more than Athens, and possibly IGF 2008 as well - they will still be 
>caught in the power struggles on how to give the IGF a more 
>effective structure that can work in the long term.

I don't understand why we should be thinking about it. It's the task 
of the governments to find the funding, if they want to make the IGF 
adequate to their needs. The Internet community has had (and still 
has) a number of places to meet and discuss Internet-related policy 
issues. The fact that the INET was effectively shut down is a good 
example that even some of these meeting places are obsolete by now.

>All in all, it took ICANN 5 to 10 years of quarterly meetings to get 
>to a reasonably stable and functioning status.


There are not too many (if any) points to compare ICANN with the IGF.
The IGF is not an organization, but a meeting place.
The IGF was a result of compromise between governments, and was not 
created because they wanted to give up the Internet to 
self-management (including everyone at equal stake) entities, but on 
the contrary - because they believe some of them are excluded from 
this management.
The IGF is heavily sponsored by governments, ICANN gets no funding, 
meeting venues, etc. by the government.
The IGF participants don't have a say in the structure, form and 
governance model of the IGF itself, there are no supporting 
organizations, etc.
Many who participate at the ICANN work find the IGF pointless, while 
the opposite is not quite the case ;)
Etc., etc.





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