[governance] Re: IGC questionnaire response to date: complete

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 14/07/2009, at 12:01 PM, Ian Peter wrote:

>> Although it may be
>> palatable to all - change never is - the IGC contends that the IGF  
>> as a
>> whole will suffer in the long term it does not prove its value to the
>> international community by adopting mechanisms for the production of
>> non-binding statements on Internet public policy issues.
>
> NO I don't agree with the last sentence and believe it should be  
> removed.
> Binding statements will reduce effective discussion to delegations  
> producing
> monologues and lowest common denominator inputs. If everyone else  
> agrees
> leave it in, but previously many of us have expressed reservations  
> about
> proceeding in this direction



Ian, how do you interpret "non-binding" to mean "binding"?

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