[governance] Next CSTD WG meeting scheduled

[Marilia Maciel]

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:35 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Marilia Maciel wrote:
>
> The next meeting of the CSTD WG for IGF improvement has been scheduled for
> 31 Oct until 02 Nov, in Geneva. Apparently, it will be open only for
> participants of the WG, but as the chair has changed, I think it could be
> useful to write to him and ask about the possibility of allowing observers
> in the room.
>
>
> Apparently the CSTD secretariat believes this to be a very highly sensitive
> and political process that should be restricted to members and existing
> participants.  As such, a letter just from CS seems unlikely to have much
> impact.  If, however, there was a joint letter with the technical and
> business communities asking for an acceptably sized peanut gallery of silent
> observers, and some member governments expressed support for the principle,
> we might get somewhere.  Perhaps our coordinators could reach out to ISOC
> and ICC and see if there'd be any interest?  The meeting's less than three
> weeks off, so anything would have to happen soon…
>
> Bill
>
>


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