[governance] Internet Technical Community Background Document to OECD Ministerial

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:gurstein at gmail.com]
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how this might fit into the recent discussion
> concerning the role of the Technical Community in CS but I would
commend
> those interested to a very interesting and useful document
> prepared/presented by ISOC as a background paper to the OECD
Ministerial
> in
> Seoul. http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/usercentric_en_2008.pdf
It is
> a
> document with which I think, CS would have very little disagreement
and
> very
> much to support.

Well now. I don't want to sound crabby, I really don't. 

But one might ask, if the "technical community" produces documents that
we agree mostly with, and if (as some self-identified spokespersons for
it insist) they should be considered part of "civil society," then why
did ISOC insist on having a separate OECD Stakeholder Forum from civil
society? 

When the OECD process started, some of us in CS tried very hard to
include ISOC and the "TC" in the same stakeholder forum. In fact we
ended up with silos that segregated the two. 

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