AW: [governance] enhanced cooperation

[Meryem Marzouki]

Le 25 avr. 08 à 19:29, McTim a écrit :

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Meryem Marzouki  
> <marzouki at ras.eu.org> wrote:
>> Dear Wolfgang,
> <snip>
>>
>>  I do have another comment, as an IGC member: what you're  
>> proposing is a
>> perfect topic to be submitted as an IGF workshop proposal.  
>> Actually, we
>> discussed in early February the need for exploring the oversight  
>> of all
>> these organizations' activities
>
>
> Seems a bit hubristic to me.

Hubristic? Why would it be hubristic to explore if there is any  
oversight, if there should be any, and if so, what form it should  
take, etc. ?

>>
>>  Finally, as Parminder recently reminded in his summary of ongoing  
>> IGC
>> activities, there will be a letter sent by IGC to UN under  
>> Secretary general
>> with regards to UN activities on enhanced cooperation, inter alia  
>> referring
>> to his letter sent to ISOC on this matter. And we have made clear  
>> in our
>> analysis of the situation that there was no reason for the IGC  
>> receiving
>> such a letter from the UN under Secretary general.
>
> I think you meant "no reason for the IGC NOT receiving".

No (sorry for the frustration). Wondering what makes you think so..  
Just in case, I'm reproducing below a former mail from me on this.

Best,
Meryem

Début du message réexpédié :
> De : Meryem Marzouki <marzouki at ras.eu.org>
> Date : 12 avril 2008 19:56:31 HAEC
> À : governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Objet : Rép : [governance] RE: enhanced cooperation
> Répondre à : governance at lists.cpsr.org,Meryem Marzouki  
> <marzouki at ras.eu.org>
>
> Parminder, all,
>
> Here's my understanding of the situation and of how we should  
> proceed as IGC:
>
> What is important is the information contained in your first mail  
> in this thread, i.e. that the UN under-SG has found, in March 2008,  
> that something should be reported on 'enhanced cooperation',  
> probably in view of the next "cluster of WSIS-related  
> events" (13-30 May in Geneva: http://www.itu.int/wsis/ 
> implementation/cluster.asp?year=2008&month=0&type='alf'&subtype=0).
>
> Since nothing has been done on 'enhanced cooperation' (at least, as  
> far as we know from publicly available information), it might have  
> been considered a good idea to ask all "IG institutions" to provide  
> an "annual performance report". I understand from the letter sent  
> to ISOC that, more than a report from ISOC, what is asked for is a  
> report from IETF (ICANN and others probably got their own letter).  
> i.e. ISOC is not really asked per se, and certainly not asked as a  
> CS organization.
>
> I infer from this understanding that the IGC does not need to be  
> consulted at this step of gathering "performance reports". We don't  
> have anything to report on this, the IGC is not an "IG institution".
>
> Worth noticing: the letter is sent by the UN under-SG, who,  
> according to the letter, "In August 2007 was entrusted by the  
> Secretary-General to continue the consultation process, especially  
> on the next: steps to be taken.". Not Desai anymore, but rather the  
> UN under-SG. "Mr. Mr. Sha Zukang became the United Nations Under- 
> Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs on 1 July,  
> 2007" (http://www.un.org/esa/desa/ousg/#bioSection).
>
> One might suspect that, in line with his comments during May 2007  
> IGF open consultations (see my previous mail), Desai made clear in  
> his 2006 report to the UN SG that nothing could be expected on the  
> 'enhanced cooperation' front, in the current state of affairs.  
> Quoting him again: "For six months, I personally met with people to
> find out whether there could be some basis, some common ground  
> which could be found for a process, leaving it very flexible and  
> elastic as to what this process could be. And, essentially, I have  
> sent the report of that to the
> Secretary-General, the then-Secretary-General.  And the fact is  
> that there isn't that common ground as yet. So I think we'll have  
> to try something different, a different approach.  So let us see."  
> Apparently, we now start seeing.
>
> What I would suggest now is that IGC coordinators send a letter to  
> the UN under-SG (not to Desai), referring to the letter sent to  
> ISOC (as it seems to be the only public info we currently have),  
> and asking him, basically, what are the new developments on  
> 'enhanced cooperation', and what are the plans. We should also ask  
> him to publish Desai's report to the UN SG of late 2006, for the  
> sake of transparency, accountability, etc. This letter should  
> enclose a copy of IGC letter to Desai dated January 2007, and ask  
> what are the CS constituencies that were consulted in this process,  
> as you initially proposed.


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