[governance] Indian proposal => "IGF improvements"

[Norbert Bollow]

> [Milton L Mueller] Agree, and a very important point. Either IBSA
> governments move to strengthen the IGF, or they give up on it and
> propose a CIRP. It's clear which path they have chosen.

Yes.

They might plan to come back to a "strengthen the IGF" agenda as a
kind of "plan B" in case the CIRP proposal fails.

There can be no doubt that if the CIRP proposal is approved, that
would weaken or even endanger the IGF. The only way in which the
CIRP proposal can strengthen the IGF is if some governments who
would rather not see IGF strengthened but who are much more strongly
opposed to the CIRP idea were to agree, in some kind of backroom
intergovernmental horse trading, to a strengthening of the IGF as
a kind of compromise with the IBSA countries who would in turn
agree to stop seeking an additional UN role in Internet governance
besides the strengthened IGF.

Greetings,
Norbert
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