[governance] CONSENSUS CALL on statement to UNSG on bypassing

[Parminder]

Yes.

Separately; while I agree that 30-40 emails with yes no etc suddenly 
appearing in the inbox may put off some people I also see the advantage 
on stating one's vote in full view of the list...

In any case the charters says that all voting, unless specified with due 
reason, will be open, and therefore even if done by a survey tool the 
votes must be finally published.

Parminder

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
> Yes
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org 
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>> wrote:
>
>     Below is the final statement on which a 48 hour consensus call is
>     now being made.  Rather than replying with YES or NO here, please
>     wait to receive a personalised email containing a code that allows
>     you to respond using a Web-based survey form.  If you do not
>     receive this email within 2 hours from now, please check with me
>     off-list.
>
>     The online survey link has been sent to all current members of
>     this list.  I realise that some members of this list are
>     subscribed more than once.  I would ask them to respond only once,
>     because responses will be publicly archived and it will be
>     apparent if more than one response has been given per person.
>
>     If you have comments beyond a YES or NO, then you may post them to
>     this list as usual.  The use of an online survey form is simply to
>     cut down on the unwanted (for some) list traffic that a consensus
>     call causes.  Thanks for your participation!
>
>     AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE INTERNET GOVERNANCE CAUCUS TO THE UNITED
>     NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL, BAN KI-MOON
>      
>     Your Excellency,
>      
>     The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) congratulates
>     you on the completion and imminent delivery of your report and
>     recommendations on the desirability of the continuation of the
>     Internet Governance Forum (IGF), based on formal consultations at
>     the IGF in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
>      
>     We request that in the interest of an open and transparent
>     process, and in accordance with established practice, these
>     recommendations be made available to the annual session of the
>     Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) in May
>     2010.
>      
>     Our request is in line with the views expressed by several
>     government delegates at the open consultations on the IGF held in
>     February 2010, to the effect that your report and recommendations
>     should be presented to the CSTD before being considered by the
>     Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and then by the UN Assembly.
>      
>     The CSTD is formally mandated to engage with all issues of follow
>     up from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and
>     its specialized knowledge and history of engagement with WSIS
>     issues, including the IGF, will provide the best basis for an
>     informed consideration of the issue by the ECOSOC and the UN Assembly.
>      
>     The CSTD also provides relatively greater multistakeholder
>     involvement than its parent body, ECOSOC, following its
>     "strengthening ... taking into account the multistakeholder
>     approach"  (Tunis Agenda, para 105) pursuant to ECOSOC decisions
>     2007/215, 2007/216, 2008/217 and 2008/218.
>      
>     We also respectfully remind you that your report on "enhanced
>     cooperation" which was presented to the ECOSOC has been referred
>     by the ECOSOC to the CSTD for its prior consideration.  This
>     suggests that ECOSOC would normally prefer CSTD's views on issues
>     of WSIS follow up before it considers them.
>      
>     Absent any reason for a departure from established practice, we
>     therefore believe that your report and recommendations should be
>     presented to the CSTD to enable widest possible discussion
>     and engagement of all actors with this very important issue.
>      
>     Thank you for your consideration of this suggestion, for your
>     leadership, and for your ongoing support of civil society's
>     participation at the Internet Governance Forum.
>
>     -- 
>
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