[governance] Internet Technical Community Background Document to OECD Ministerial

[McTim]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> -----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?

Perhaps because of the very rejection of I* orgs as CS we have seen on
this list, most recently from the NomCom?

>
> 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.

So you do consider the existing Internet governance organisations to be CS?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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