[governance] <Urgent> Draft Joint Letter protesting CSTD WG composition only by governments

[Izumi AIZU]

Dear list,

The "rumor" that the decision to compose CSTD WG only by governments
is now proven to be true, decided by very few members of CSTD.

I have contacted ICC and ISOC, similar to the joint letter work we had on
Dec 14 consultation on enhanced cooperation. They shared the same
concern and worked out with many others mostly at ICANN Cartagena
meeting including ICANN, government folks etc:  UK, Sweden, US,
ICANN, ccNSO etc.

Here is the draft text as of now. They plan to send it shortly, and asking IGC
to join. There may be last-minute minor edit, but it is almost final.

I propose that IGC to sign. IF you have any comments or suggestions,
please reply to this quickly.  In general, we need 48 hours to decide,
but in this
special case, we may not have that luxury of time.

I have prepared our own draft (sorry for the complication), and now
it is being edited by our nominees for CSTD WG. My suggestion is
to carry on this draft as well, and send it in addition to the joint one.

I will post that draft in a separate email and welcome your comments.
We will send that and perhaps make statement at Dec 17 WG meeting
if they do not change their decision. We will also include that and
read that at Dec 14 EC consultation meeting in New York.

Sorry for the confusing manner, but this could happen, and I think
acting quickly to keep the Multi-stakeholder framework is urgently
needed and important for us.

I hope you understand and support this.

best,

izumi

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DRAFT

To Frederic Riehl
Cc Ghana Chair of the CSTD

We are surprised and deeply concerned by the CSTD Bureau’s decision
that  the Working Group on IGF Improvements mandated by resolution
(2010/2) of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
will be composed exclusively of member states.
This ECOSOC resolution, which was initially negotiated during the CSTD
in May 2010 by or in the presence of many of the signatories below,
asked the Chair of the CSTD to establish a Working Group to: "seek,
compile and review inputs from all Member States and all other
stakeholders on improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF),
in line with the mandate set out in the Tunis Agenda".
These words are a clear reference to the paragraph of the WSIS Plan of
Action (Geneva 2003) that led to the establishment of the very
successful Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and ultimately
the creation of the IGF itself:

We ask the Secretary-General of the United Nations to set up a working
group on Internet governance, in an open and inclusive process that
ensures a mechanism for the full and active participation of
governments, the private sector and civil society from both developing
and developed countries, involving relevant intergovernmental and
international organizations and forums, to investigate and make
proposals for action…

We therefore expected that the composition of the Working Group would
be strongly inspired by the methodology adopted for setting up the
multi-stakeholder WGIG, as stated as the CSTD Vice-Chair’s
recommendation in his report on the meeting he convened on 16
September 2010.

The format decided by the Bureau of the CSTD is contrary to both the
letter and the spirit of the ECOSOC resolution and is therefore not
acceptable.

In any event, it is not up to the Bureau of the CSTD to make a
decision on this matter. This is not a Working Group of the CSTD, but
rather a Working Group to be convened by the Chair of the CSTD as
instructed by the ECOSOC resolution.
The CSTD Chair entrusted you with the mission of implementing the
request made to her. In light of that and the above information we
urge you to retract the decision of 7 December, and to establish an
appropriately constituted Working Group consistent with the WSIS
formulation ensuring “the full and active participation of
governments, the private sector and civil society from both developing
and developed countries, involving relevant intergovernmental and
international organizations and forums”.

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