[governance] Thanks to Izumi

[Fouad Bajwa]

Hi Izumi,

I would like to join Bertrand and all of our members in thanking you
for carrying out such an important task and being there! Great work
old friend!

I also share Bertrand's concerns and am keeping my fingers crossed on this.

Best

Fouad

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Bertrand de La Chapelle
<bdelachapelle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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