[governance] Speakers for IGF - new faces?

[William Drake]

Vittorio,

On 9/20/07 7:31 PM, "Vittorio Bertola" <vb at bertola.eu> 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.
> 
> All in all, it took ICANN 5 to 10 years of quarterly meetings to get to
> a reasonably stable and functioning status.

Thanks for the uplifting vision of the road ahead.  The IGF's mandate is
five years, so maybe by the time we finish we'll be ready to begin :-)

BD


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