AW: [governance] CSTD IX. Conclusions and recommendations

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

This is a red hering. The question is not whether the outcome should be binding or not binding (to become legally binding you need a ratification by a national parliament), the question is whether the outcome is a negotiated text or just a collection of various relevant points of views/messages (where the pressure for players to accept such a "message" comes from the strength of the argument and not from the number of votes). 
 
If you start negotiations, you close mind and mouth of decision makers and participants will only try to get "their position" reflected in the final document. You kill thinking out of the box and end up with "recommendations" like "the Internet should contribute to peace and international understanding and help underserved countries to enhance access to the Internet". Nobody, with the exception of paid diplomats (paid by tax payers/Internet users money) would go year by year to an annual conference which produces such type of "outcomes".  After five years, when the IGF has to be re-evaluated, there would be enough arguments to close the IGF because it produces nothing more than Blabla and its "Final Declarations" will disappear in the bookshelfs of the forgotten documents.  
 
We should go beyond the traditional conference systems and try to be more innovative and create something new. 
I repeat my proposal with the seven roles/functions IGF 2.0 could play:
1. Observatory
2. Clearinghouse
3. Laboratory
4. School
5. Scout
6. Early Warning System
7. Watchdog
 
For each of the seven function one can develop a special procedure how to translate this into concrete elements of an IGF process. 
 
wolfgang 
 
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Von: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org]
Gesendet: Sa 29.01.2011 02:03
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Yrjö Länsipuro
Betreff: Re: [governance] CSTD IX. Conclusions and recommendations


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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