[governance] Re:Strike 2nd para

[Eric Dierker]

Try as I might it makes no sense to leave this in.  It reads like someone trying to make sense of dissent from consensus. It belongs in argument not conclusion -- My thought is that it was included to make some players happy when they disagreed. Very political sounding.

--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:


From: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu>
Subject: Re: [governance] PLEASE RESPOND - draft statement on reform of the
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 1:15 PM




I would suggest to delete the following para below which is the second substantial para of the draft statement:

However given that the IGF is not a traditional governmental organisation, it is important to ensure that its Secretariat and MAG are adequately accountable to the IGF's non-governmental stakeholders. Within the IGC, there are various views on how this can be best assured.  Some believe that the Secretariat should have a level of accountability to the MAG.  Others feel that it would improve the MAG's accountability if its members were taken to represent the stakeholder groups (but not the particular stakeholders) who appointed them.

Here is my reason: formally, the secretariat is accountable to the UNSG. The para above suggests instead that the secretariat is either accountable to no one or it is accountable to the stakeholder groups but not in a sufficient manner. Both options seem misleading to me.

Since there is no strong message in this para anyway, I think we don't lose much if we simply skip it.

jeanette
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