[governance] What happened?

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 17/11/2009, at 8:53 AM, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On 11/16/2009 10:18 PM, Ian Peter wrote:
>
>>> 2. IGF Secretariat acted in response to a complaint from a member  
>>> state. In
>>> the UN system if there is any breach involved they have no choice  
>>> but to act.
>
> Is this a policy that is written somewhere that we can look at?

Markus's explanation does not reassure me at all.  If there are,  
indeed, policies about the user of banners, but they are not enforced  
except when a member state complains (I obtained photographic evidence  
of this last night, which I posted to the list), this opens the door  
to all manner of abuses such as that we witnessed this week.

There are many such policies at IGF that are honoured more in the  
breach than in the observance.  For example, dynamic coalitions are  
required to post annual reports on their activities in order to remain  
listed at http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/dynamiccoalitions.   
Yet, there are dynamic coalitions listed there that have not posted  
their reports.  Assuming that the coalition on Freedom of Expression  
and Freedom of the Media on the Internet is one of those that has not  
done so, China could have it removed.  Are we comforted that this  
would only happen because of the application of an existing policy?

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