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

Thu Dec 9 13:46:13 EST 2010

Dear Izumi
 I support this letter
Shaila

 Life is too short ....challenge the rules
Forgive quickly ... love truly ...and tenderly
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From: Lisa Horner <LisaH at global-partners.co.uk>

To: "governance at lists.cpsr.org" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>; Shahzad Ahmad 
<shahzad at bytesforall.net>
Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 4:57:46 AM
Subject: RE: [governance] <Urgent> Draft Joint Letter protesting CSTD WG 
composition only by governments

From me too.

Thanks!
Lisa

From:governance-request at lists.cpsr.org 
[mailto:governance-request at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Shahzad Ahmad
Sent: 09 December 2010 12:40
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: RE: [governance] <Urgent> Draft Joint Letter protesting CSTD WG 
composition only by governments

Total support Izumi.

Best wishes
Shahzad

From:valeriabet at gmail.com [mailto:valeriabet at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Valeria 
Betancourt
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:22 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] <Urgent> Draft Joint Letter protesting CSTD WG 
composition only by governments

Dear Izumi, 

APC supports that IGC signs the letter. 

Best, 

Valeria 
2010/12/9 Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu>
Hi Izumi, thank you for coordinating this. The letter is very good and I support 
that the IGC signs it.

jeanette

Am 09.12.2010 01:53, schrieb 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
>
>------------------
>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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