AW: [governance] CSTD IX. Conclusions and recommendations

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 10:18 -0200, Graciela Selaimen wrote:
> Hi, Wolfganfg and all,
> 
> >
> > I am aware that this will trigger a debate about the nomination of chairs or rapporteurs. However the message from a workshop could be "one group says so and the other group says so". The message in this case would be: This is an important issue, but there is no agreement. And if you have 60 workshops you would have 60 rapporteurs (with about 150 messages) which guarantees to a certain degree diversity and a fair reflection of all positions.
> 
> This is why I think it would be interesting to have the workshops in the 
> two first days of the meeting.

I agree and have said the same.  Something like this is common in other
Internet governance institutions.  For example, in my region, the annual
APRICOT conference (see apricot.net) always commences with workshops.
Plenary sessions are only held afterwards, so as not to overlap and
compete with the workshops.  The IGF will never make any progress while
the majority of participants don't even attend its plenary sessions.

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