[governance] Comments on draft submission to the CSTD Working Group on Improvements to the IGF

[parminder]

pl give at least 24 hours to comment. not possible to comment in 6 
hours. parminder

On Friday 11 March 2011 09:50 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> Here is a summary of the comments that have been made on our draft
> statement at http://www.igcaucus.org/digress.it/, and the suggested
> changes I'll be making to the statement in response.  Due to the timing
> of the deadline, I have no choice but to put the statement to a
> consensus call later today, so if you have any other comments, please
> make them immediately.
>
> PARA 1: A grammatical change suggested by Norbert; no issue with this.
>
> PARA 2: McTim suggests we get more specific about the IGF's lack of
> progress in fulfilling paras 72(b) and 72(c) of the Tunis Agenda
> (facilitating discourse and interfacing).  I suggest the simplest way to
> do this is just by adding "We give some recommendations on how the IGF
> could do this in sections 2 and 5 below."
>
> PARA 4: Norbert makes a similar remark about our observations on paras
> 72(e) and 72(g) (IG4D and recommendations).  Again, the best way to deal
> with this is to forward-reference: "Our suggestions for how the IGF
> might make better progress in these areas follow in sections 3 and 4
> respectively."
>
> PARA 11: McTim and Izumi said we are a bit too ambitious here.  McTim
> took objection to suggesting that we "integrate the IGF's outcomes into
> the programmes of other institutions".  So I propose we say "increase
> the visibility of the IGF's outcomes within other institutions". Izumi
> didn't want to suggest rapporteurs who would "act as a proactive conduit
> for feedback from those institutions".  So I suggest "receive feedback
> from those institutions" instead.
>
> So, I will prepare an online poll to gauge consensus on the statement as
> it stands with the above amendments.  If possible, please provide any
> further comments (either here on the list or on the Web site) BEFORE I
> post the poll, ie. within the next six hours or so.
>
> Thanks!
>
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