[governance] Indian proposal => "IGF improvements"

[McTim]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hi Marilia
> Since you and our other reps will soon be in Geneva for the WGIGF meeting,
> it seems timely to circle back to this thread.
>
<snip>

therefore
> asked why the Tshwane Declaration didn't just come out and take the UN
> oversight body concept off the table if that was true.  Now we have the
> answer—it wasn't.
> Irrespective of any stakeholder views, the Indian government has ploughed
> ahead and formally proposed almost precisely what the "just a draft" said
> (actually it's worse—the Indian language adds to the list of functions,
> "Facilitate negotiation of treaties, conventions and agreements on
> Internet-related public policies"…this to be done by 50 governments that
> meets for two weeks a year for ten six hour days).


"and convene additional meetings, as and when required.", which makes
me think there will, eventually, (and probably sooner rather than
later ) be more or less full-time meetings going on (which is why I
said mission creep yesterday).


  And they did this in a
> purely intergovernmental setting where stakeholder views are duly ignored.
>  One might add that I asked the indian representative twice on stage
> whether/when a proposal might go to the GA and got evasive answers.  Since
> this was done a couple weeks after Nairobi, one has to assume that they'd
> already decided and just weren't going to say it in a multistakeholder
> setting where people might raise questions, which strikes me as rather
> indicative of how we can expect all this to be handled going forward.


+1

<excellent analysis snipped>

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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