[governance] Re: CS letter to UNGA

[Milton L Mueller]

Just catching up with this. I understand that it is too late to alter what you did, but it seems odd to me that we would not mention that rather obvious mandate the proposed code of conduct would give to authoritarian states to suppress internet-based expression that they viewed as "destabilizing" their government. That, to me, is far more important than any imputed absence of civil society.

From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Malcolm
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:38 AM
To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] Re: CS letter to UNGA

On 27/09/2011, at 3:29 PM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:


Hi

here is a very first draft of the letter. Additions,m changeas, enhancements are welcome.

And lets start to invite other NGOs / CS Orgs to join.

Many thanks Wolfgang.  Due to the compressed timescale available to us, Izumi and I have agreed that we won't be holding the usual 48-hour consensus call after the discussion on this draft closes.  Instead we will determine whether there is a rough consensus based on the comments (especially objections) received as we fine-tune this draft text over the next 24 hours.  In the interim, I will reach out to other civil society networks and other stakeholder groups to ascertain whether they will sign on to the final text.  Thanks for your understanding of this deviation from our usual procedures.

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