[governance] EC consultation in NY: my report

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<75822E125BCB994F8446858C4B19F0D70AC120090C at SUEX07-MBX-04.ad.syr.edu>, 
at 00:04:22 on Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> 
writes

>My most pointed criticism - one that got the DESA people scurrying - 
>was to ask why, if EC was a separate process from IGF,

Just because CSTD is dealing with both workstreams, doesn't invalidate 
the proposition that they might be "two distinct processes" (which are 
proceeding in parallel). Indeed, that train left the station months ago 
when the resolution which called for yesterday's meeting defined the 
"two processes" context for the meeting.

>was the CSTD suddenly proposing to exclude CS and business from 
>_developing recommendations for improvements in the IGF_!!!

The reason why the CSTD IGF WG has been made Government only (although 
CS and business are still able to turn up tomorrow and read out their 
inputs to the process) has been stated as 'in order to complete the work 
on time'. You may think that's a smokescreen, and an undesirable 
outcome, but I suspect we have to live with it now, unless some rabbits 
appear out of hats in Geneva today or tomorrow.

The original roadmap (for the IGF Improvements WG) was always a bit 
optimistic if (as it turned out) they needed to wait for the General 
Assembly (via the Second Committee) to affirm that the IGF was going 
ahead at all. And we are also stuck with milestones such as the CSTD 
meeting being in May, and the 2012 IGF planning starting in less than a 
year.

As for the EC recommendations (which is defacto a quite separate report 
regardless of the EC/IGF separation issue) we need to wait for the 
UnderSec's report, then influence the debate where/when that surfaces 
(whether that's CSTD or ECOSOC, it'll be early next summer).

>Note also that the loopiest NGO intervention came from a woman who's 
>organization was indeed ECOSOC accredited.

But that's democracy for you - within whatever the local constraints are 
(ultimately very few for that meeting), you do have to listen politely 
to what everyone has to say.
-- 
Roland Perry
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