[governance] Internet Technical Community Background Document to OECD Ministerial

[Michael Gurstein]

Milton,

A couple of points:
	that the Technical Community produces a document with which CS
agrees really has little to do with whether there should or should not be a
separate Forum (or anything else)... Various groups produce all sorts of
documents many of which others agree which doesn't mean that they should
merge themselves into a common presentation mode. 

	from my observation the difference in the presenters and the topics
of presentation at the TC Forum and the CS Forum were a sufficient argument
to justify separate but equal and to a degree complimentary and mutually
re-inforcing forums 

http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/itc_agenda_20080612.pdf

http://thepublicvoice.org/events/seoul08/

Perhaps a larger lesson there for this discussion?

MG


-----Original Message-----
From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at syr.edu] 
Sent: June 25, 2008 8:52 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Michael Gurstein
Subject: RE: [governance] Internet Technical Community Background Document
to OECD Ministerial

> -----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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