[governance] communicating with our peers

[Parminder]

>This has just appeared on the IGF's front page (unless it was there  
>before and I missed it):

>"Digests of the discussion held within the Advisory Group are  
>available on the Forum Section on a regular basis."  I like it how  
>this is stated as if it had always been the case, whereas in fact it  
>is now 2008 and the Advisory Group was established in 2006.


No, it wasnt there before. And it's a great development. 

In continuation of the email on CS activity inside MAG, what worries me is
that this has happened without any significant (or any at all) role of the
CS members in the MAG. At least I do not know of it, and will be very happy
to be proved wrong. 

It has happened almost entirely due to UN SG's instructions. And we are so
keen on calling UN names and celebrating the virtues of CS. Why weren't the
CS group so keen active and aggressive in pushing for this change. In fact,
I remember during September face to face consultations China, yes, China,
wanted these meetings to be open to observers. And CS doesn't seem to have
any views on it. In fact I sometime hear views more in favor of what would
amount to less transparency. 

Parminder 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au] 
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:01 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] communicating with our peers

This has just appeared on the IGF's front page (unless it was there  
before and I missed it):

"Digests of the discussion held within the Advisory Group are  
available on the Forum Section on a regular basis."  I like it how  
this is stated as if it had always been the case, whereas in fact it  
is now 2008 and the Advisory Group was established in 2006.

Anyway, the upshot is that the selection of comments on rotation that  
were posted last month are intended as the first of a series.  This is  
good, except for the fact that  most of the critical decisions on the  
IGF's structure and processes have already been made, and will be much  
more difficult to change now than if we had had a window into the  
MAG's veiled world two years ago.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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