[governance] Proposed workshop text on CSTD and/or Indian proposal

[Marilia Maciel]

If there are no further comments about this workshop proposal (reflections
on the Indian proposal), then I believe that Jeremy and I will start
contacting other stakeholder groups by tomorow (Monday), ok?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> On 08/04/2011, at 11:50 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:
>
> I just believe that we should carefully frame it, so that stakeholder
> representatives that do not necessarely agree with the proposal feel invited
> and encouraged to participate and put forth their arguments. During the CSTD
> WG meeting, the technical community and US opposed the proposal, but they
> did not say why.
>
>
> I feel that we are gravitating towards a consensus on the more focused
> India/CSTD workshop proposal (in addition to the Mapping one), but here is
> some more nuanced language for the former, with changes underlined (anyone
> else, feel free to make your own suggestions):
>
> *Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0*
>
> As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to the
> IGF, the Government of India recently provided a set of
> "Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN General
> Assembly Mandate".  *Although only one stakeholder's proposal, *the ten
> suggested improvements reflect proposals that *some* other countries and
> other stakeholder groups have also previously aired. *It is also one of
> the only relatively comprehensive written proposals on IGF outcomes to
> emerge from the Working Group, and therefore provides a convenient starting
> point for further discussion.*
>
> It was suggested *in the proposal* that the MAG identify key questions for
> the IGF to deliberate upon, that a Working Group for each issue develop
> background material on it, to be considered by the IGF through workshops,
> a roundtable discussion, and possible inter-sessional meetings, and
> that discussion at the plenary level would result in an IGF report on
> each issue that would be transmitted to the CSTD and other relevant
> bodies for their action and feedback.
>
> Since it was not possible for the CSTD Working Group to fully discuss these
> suggestions, this workshop is intended to provide a space to do so more
> fully. *The workshop will provide an opportunity for all stakeholders to
> consider the merits of the proposals as well as their shortcomings, and* consider
> whether and how to take *such* proposals forward.
>
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