[governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for Delhi - main

[McTim]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> Parminder wrote:
>
>  > enhanced cooperation (EC). Not only know, it is the right and the
>  responsibility
>  > of THE global Internet public policy forum ie IGF to discuss various
>
>  * EC is very important - and there is extensive scope within the existing
>  mechanism for this.

Spot on! I think the recent discussion about alleged over
representativeness of certain groups in the MAG shows how willing to
do EC they are!

If we can't see this forest (EC) for the trees (whois on the MAG),
well, we are back to shooting ourselves in the foot!

Let me restate my original points in the previous thread as they relate to EC:

1) Internet admin bodies are squarely within the realm of CS, and are
actively involved in doing EC by, inter alia, participating in the IGF
and it's MAG.

2) Asking for the removal of a 4th stakeholder group, made up of CS
folk only reduces the total number of CS in the MAG.  I suggest this
is not a beneficial outcome for IGC and CS as a whole.

3) setting up a quota system for a group of observers or advisor's
(after denying them full SH status) :

     3a) means reducing the number of CS participants in the MAG. I
suggest this is not a beneficial outcome for IGC and CS as a whole.

     3b) reduces the opportunities for EC. I suggest this is not a
beneficial outcome for IGC and CS as a whole.

     3c) means that if we want quotas for one group, we would have to
ask for quotas on govts, and biz as well. I suggest this is not a
beneficial outcome for IGC and CS as a whole, see BD's point on this
yesterday.

>
>  * Trying to gain even soft oversight functions over ICANN is a nonstarter
>  and doesn't have much consensus here

FULL ACK

>
>
>  > Weren't development and capacity building cross-cutting themes for both
>  > Athens, and Rio. I can understand if oyu do not remember, because that
>
>  They were, and rightly so. I find it amazing that CS groups that already do
>  such a lot of this tend to play down its importance.

violent agreement

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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