[governance] Agenda for the next CSTD WG meeting Fwd: Working Group on the improvement to the IGF

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<AANLkTim8wekog9D_OLyPVkhpu5x4=TkD9kOZMa2s7skj at mail.gmail.com>, at 
15:27:25 on Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> writes
>Still, there was no need for a separate mailing list IMHO.

There's a "Law of social networking" (of which the IGC lists are an 
example, and social networking has existed for at least 20 years before 
acquiring that sexy name) which says that if you spin off a separate 
discussion group it almost always dies. That's just a fact of life. Look 
at the [lack of] activity on the other three spun-off groups, for 
example.

It requires a big commitment to make it work, which is one reason why 
small *closed* lists are the most successful - the people who want to 
discuss their business in private are demonstrating that commitment (to 
keeping their discussion closed).
-- 
Roland Perry
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