[governance] Re: Last call for comments IGC questionnaire for

[Parminder]

William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just noticed a couple little things.
>
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:
>
>>
>> 2. To what extent has the IGF embodied the WSIS principles?
>>
>> We suggest that a process for the ongoing assessment and promotion of 
>> those principles within IG processes be established, per the Tunis 
>> Mandate. To that end we support the APC/COE/UNECE initiative "Towards 
>> a code of good practice on public participation in Internet 
>> governance - Building on the principles of WSIS and the Aarhus 
>> Convention" as a building block for such an effort.
>
> The code speaks to the procedural component of the principles but not 
> the substantive component, directly.  Per the conversation between 
> Parminder and I, and the specific endorsement of the Swiss government 
> in the above-mentioned statement (which we left out), would anyone 
> have a problem adding a third sentence something like,
>
> "In parallel, we would welcome sustained, cross-cutting efforts to 
> consider the linkages between Internet governance and development and 
> to evolve a development agenda for Internet governance, in keeping 
> with the Tunis mandate."
>
Yes. we should add it.


>
> I think treating rights coherently in one place and not conflating it 
> with just the IG principles is logically coherent and avoids us 
> appearing to unilaterally reinterpret the latter just because of where 
> the MAG decided to shoehorn a topic on Sharm agenda. It does not give 
> up the linkage between rights and the IG principles, it makes rights 
> an overarching concern with respect to everything, including the 
> principles, without being conceptually confused.  So this works for me.
i prefer for us to go with a broader conception of WSIS principles 
(geneva principles, DoP etc), and i have suggested text which keeps our 
response on rights in WSIS principles part  of the questionnaire but the 
specific text refers to DoP.

Parminder
>
> I will be largely offline the next few days, so however the text is 
> finalized, I vote yes on adoption.
>
> Best,
>
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