[governance] Handover notes

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 02/10/11 20:01, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>>   * I would encourage the coordinators to maintain the high level
>>     dialogue that we established at this year's IGF with the US and EU
>>     governments as well as with IBSA governments. Despite all the
>>     opposition to the IBSA proposal at this year's IGF, remember that
>>     similar opposition was expressed for years about the IGF producing
>>     outputs, yet that now seems inevitable.
>
> Just for the record. This is Jeremy's opinion. In my view, we are as
> far away from output in the form of official recommendations as a
> couple of years ago. Not even within civil society there is a
> unanimous view on this.

I agree, official recommendations are not likely.  But almost everyone
is now talking about some form of more tangible output, whereas
previously it couldn't even be discussed.

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