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

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<AANLkTine7mH6vsLs_z5sf9PZv=tiJbRLW5uZhvuZYrp6 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
16:42:18 on Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> 
remarked:
>Still, a separate list doesn't make sense............it takes a lot
>for many to follow just this one from the developing part of the
>world.........I like the interpretation for small lists and
>productivity but it doesn't answer the need for openness and
>accessibility.

I wasn't arguing in favour of a closed group... just pointing out that 
newly-formed open groups almost always fail (it's not an IGC thing, it 
happens in all walks of life).

>On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Roland Perry
><roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>> 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

-- 
Roland Perry
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