[governance] RE: [Coalition] Civil Society Information

Jeffrey A. Williams jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
Wed Oct 22 16:28:08 EDT 2008


Milton and all,

  Thanks, and I concur.  Some of us have seen this sort of tactic
many times before, ICANN is famous for it.

Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Hi, Marc
> I just caught up with this message, and I think I speak for several CS
> groups in saying that this is just not the way we ought to be going
> about constructing a joint, unified civil society presence in OECD.
>
> The document was not developed on the public Wiki that you (EPIC)
> yourself created; it ignores the output of a collective meeting of the
> involved CS groups in Geneva; it unilaterally declares your own
> organization the "Secretariat" without any process for gaining the
> consent of other civil society organizations. And releasing a proposal
> one day before you discuss it on a call is bizarre and minimizes the
> opportunity for actual participation and acceptance.
>
> So I won't be on that call and don't think anyone else outside EPIC will
> be, either.
>
> Let me know when ya'll decide that this is about civil society and more
> than just EPIC.
>
> --MM
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coalition-bounces at mailman.epic.org [mailto:coalition-
> > bounces at mailman.epic.org] On Behalf Of Marc Rotenberg
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:08 AM
> > To: coalition at mailman.thepublicvoice.org
> > Subject: [Coalition] Civil Society Information Society Advisory
> > Council(CSISAC) Charter
> >
> > Friends,
> >
> > Drawing on the comments that were submitted to the Public Voice list,
> > the various meetings that took place in Seoul in June, and the
> > subsequent meetings with the OECD in Geneva and Washington, we have
> put
> > together a proposal for the OECD Secretariat for the "Civil Society
> > Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC).
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