[governance] Should IGF negotiate recommendations? (Re: IGC Statement -Questionnaire as of July 15)

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 16/07/2009, at 4:16 PM, William Drake wrote:

> How a statement saying caucus members have various views but all  
> want an open dialogue on the matter could be unacceptable is beyond  
> me.

I explained in my last message, but in brief it gives away more ground  
than it needs to, by conceding that recommendations might not be  
appropriate in any conceivable circumstances.

Also, it's not even accurate to say that "IGF stakeholders have been  
divided as to whether the requirement of appropriateness ever has been  
or could be met".  In fact they haven't addressed their minds to this  
point at all.  I don't recall anyone ever saying, "Well yes the IGF  
could make recommendations, except for this requirement of  
appropriateness".  They haven't even gotten to that point - rather  
they have harped on the fact that the IGF has no mechanism to produce  
recommendations, and implying that no such mechanism is possible  
without destroying the IGF as we know it.

So maybe the existing text isn't perfect, but perhaps then anyone who  
is opposed to it should suggest how to improve it rather than either  
deleting it altogether or replacing it with text that places an  
unwarranted shadow over recommendations in any form.

> Likewise, the text demanding recommendations won't pass consensus.   
> McTim is opposed,

No he isn't, he said he could live with the existing text after  
changing "will suffer" to "may suffer".  So in my view it should be  
put to a consensus call as it stands...

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