[governance] IGF Improvement

[Roland Perry]

In message <p06240817c924c68e2dd5@[186.113.248.242]>, at 14:26:36 on 
Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> writes
>Comment at the ICANN meeting this evening is that Wolfgang's news about 
>the CSTD working group is correct.
>
>The only reasonable option for all civil society, private sector and 
>Internet community is simply to not participate.

Based on the email that Izumi quoted yesterday, about attendance at the 
CSTD session on the 17th, it does appear to be the "classic" recent CSTD 
model of [in the room] Governments, ECOSOC consultative status entities 
and WSIS accredited entities. Which excludes a wider range of 
stakeholders, but the WSIS-accredited ones are supposed to past their 
honeymoon period now, and CSTD never was open to everyone.

But if the WG doesn't even allow those other entities as observers, 
that's a step backwards.

I do also wonder if there has been so much fighting for seats on the 
non-government part of the originally proposed WG that they've decided 
that rather than disappoint some, they'll disappoint all.
-- 
Roland Perry
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