[governance] communicating with our peers

[Adam Peake]

>  >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.


Is not correct.


>At least I do not know of it, and will be very happy
>to be proved wrong.


I don't know that as a young boy you did not 
torture kittens.  I would be very happy to be 
proved wrong.  (whatever, just stop this negative 
silliness please.)


>It has happened almost entirely due to UN SG's instructions.


It's been a bit of an evolutionary process.  We 
began with expectations from WSIS and WGIG etc, 
and progressed since then.  A lot of people want 
more openness (and fairness, and for the MAG to 
be functional as a multistakeholder group.)

Please coordinate some input for the consultation 
that's a couple of weeks away. Deadline for any 
comments being included in the synthesis paper 
missed (again), but never mind.

Thanks,

Adam




>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
>host -t NAPTR 1.0.8.0.3.1.2.9.8.1.6.e164.org|awk -F! '{print $3}'
>
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