AW: [governance] Consensus Call for CSTD IGF Questionnaire -

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<93F4C2F3D19A03439EAC16D47C591DDE0330006E75 at suex07-mbx-08.ad.syr.edu>, 
at 15:40:15 on Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> 
writes
>Ok, rub it in....
>
>But yeah pre-CSISAC, you might be invited in by OECD as a cs expert to 
>participate in or contribute to a specific topic, with the 
>blessing/backing of your home country, but all other docs and topics 
>would generally be off-limits -since your expertise just granted you 
>special dispensation to contribute to that topic.  Even if you were 
>invited to show up at the meeting, docs on other topics were not for 
>you. And certainly not the drafts.
>
>Unless you repped the biz community, or labor, they had seats at the 
>table with the big boys.
>
> Ok actually they have cheap seats too since only governments sit at 
>the grownups table, but at least they were invited regularly into room. 
>OK now I am being too kind, the biz community gets its special welcome 
>like one might expect, and might participate in drafting.

I agree that the business community is more thoroughly represented, but 
that's also because they have more resources to set up the "collective 
groupings" I mentioned earlier, and because they've been doing it 
longer. The resources issue also affects whether you can pay attention 
to everything a body is doing, or just get inside the handful of 
documents that you've been asked to help with.
-- 
Roland Perry
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