[governance] Re: Final score in CSTD consultations ??

[Sivasubramanian M]

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/242051,un-mulls-internet-regulation-options.aspx


Sivasubramanian M




On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Izumi AIZU <aizu at anr.org> wrote:

> Sorry for the delay. Now back at the hotel, munching some bread.
>
> Well, as I put in the previous thread, Round III, they all reached the
> consensus of the text. Both sides kind of compromised for some words
> against other.
>
> In essence, the non-governmental stakeholders were "invited" to the WG,
> but not as the fully fledged member, but as the guest, or as "second
> class citizen"
> which has been used many times during the negotiation.
>
> The US, EU and other MSH friendly governments did not really insist on the
> pure equal footing of non-governmental actors in the WG.  There was a
> proposal
> from Iran, I guess to have only 2 from each sector, not 5. The Chair sort
> of
> insisted that they be 5 each, provided that the status of these non-gov
> actors
> are lower than the gov members.
>
> So OECD governments, let's say became somewhat relived by seeing at least
> there be some members from CS, PS and tech and academia inside the WG,
> not with the full membership, nor the "observer" - can participate in the
> debate
> and deliberations, but not at the decision making. Well that's how
> most governments
> accept.
>
> So then the focus of the debate went to the "rules of the procedures
> of ECOSOC and
> CSTD" - how much to impose these to non-gov actors.
> "in accordance with" was sort of first version, then Greece proposed:
> "bearing in mind"... at one time it was dropped, then came back, then
> Mexico questioned
> the secretariat if there is any CSTD rules of procedure. The answer was No,
> only
> functional commissions of the CSTD has rules of procedures, but not CSTD
> itself.
> So they dropped reference of CSTD and only left ECOSOC.
>
> There are some details where the devils or the angels may reside but no one
> had the energy to visit the details - say how to select the civil
> society members,
> etc.
>
> Of course, the outcome is far from satisfactory. Better than the Dec 6
> decision?
> I think yes.  Worth to pull the plug? I don't think so, at least at
> this stage, no.
>
> Frankly, we did not have that much coherent move, yet. We do not have
> active work of strategy, outreach and work plan, yet. I mean it is not too
> late
> to work on these and define what exactly we like to gain, nor not to lose
> and
> then head to the next round.
>
> Simply boycotting AT THIS STAGE doesn't give much gain, IMHO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> izumi
>
> (gimme a break).
>
>
> 2010/12/18 Bertrand de La Chapelle <bdelachapelle at gmail.com>:
> > Dear all,
> > Is anybody able to say what finally happened ?
> > Best
> > Bertrand
> >
> > --
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> >
> > "Le plus beau métier des hommes, c'est d'unir les hommes" Antoine de
> Saint
> > Exupéry
> > ("there is no greater mission for humans than uniting humans")
> >
>
>
>
> --
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