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

Thu Apr 21 13:29:10 EDT 2011

Dear all,

I have consulted other stakeholder groups (wrote to the members of the CSTD
WG) and asked them if they would like to co-sponsor and/or participate as
speakers in our workshop "reflections on the indian proposal".

After some delay, both groups answered me that they are going to present
their own workshop proposals about the CSTD process and IGF improvement.
They said they would be open to talk about merging with us and asked me to
convey this message to you.

We know how merging can result in a "frankenstein" specially in a topic like
this. So we have to carefully assess what to do next. I was really hoping
that talking to other groups in advance would make us engage in fruitful
dialogue and would allow us to present a unified proposal.

Business sector has not yet a text of their proposal (to be advanced by
ICC). The technical community has a draft proposal, that is too broad in my
opinion, and will hardly advance the debate. The key-questions in their
proposal are:

- Compare and contrast the two IGF improvement processes [CSTD WG and MAG],
identifying the advantages and disadvantages of each process, and where
there is overlap in their work, if any.

·       Examine some example improvements contributed to each process,
following through their implementation, or otherwise, to assess the real
world constraints that have an affect on implementation

·       Discuss the best processes that can be used in future to identify
and implement improvements to the IGF

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Marília

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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