[governance] CSTD IX. Conclusions and recommendations

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 29/01/2011, at 3:07 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro wrote:

>  I have great  respect for the outcomes of processes that produced the great  documents you mentioned, but the IGF is not such a process. It is not a treaty conference, it is a forum for multistakeholder policy dialogue. I agree, it's purpose is clearly written in article 72 of Tunis Agenda.  I'm all for implementing all of it, but not for turning the IGF into a binding process expressly excluded in article 77.

This straw man has been crucified one too many times.  I remember standing up in a workshop in Athens to explain my views on why the IGF needed to be empowered to produce recommendations, only for another (member of the IGC, actually) to spend the next five minutes lambasting me for wanting the IGF to become a binding process.  In fact I am not aware that anyone, ever, has suggested that the IGF's recommendations should be binding - indeed, those terms are contradictory.

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