[governance] Thanks to Izumi

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Izumi,

Joining others in expressing my deepest thanks for the incredible job you
did today. Those of us who were not able to be present in Geneva (and raged
against the absence of any transcription) could follow things as they
unfolded thanks to your perfect reporting. Kudos. rest well deserved.

Final formulations are far from satisfactory (it is clearly a setback from
WGIG) but contain some positive elements. The number of non-state actors is
one of them and the Chair deserves credit for having kept this all along.

As for the rest, there are probably sufficient ambiguities that can be
exploited. "Bearing in mind" is one of them. Furthermore, the provision that
the report must be adopted by consensus does not really clarify how much
endorsement is needed from the non-governmental participants. And everything
will be in the hands of those selected, depending upon their pugnacity, as
experience proves that in multi-stakeholder discussions, most ideas come
from the "bottom".

Finally, several governments have insisted on the necessary openness of the
process and this should be kept in mind to allow interaction through this
list with the members (sorry, the "invited participants") in the Group.

Best

Bertrand

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Exupéry
("there is no greater mission for humans than uniting humans")
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