[governance] Updates [General IGC Business]

[Mawaki Chango]

Hi,

I too was a bit surprised to read that IGF is supposed to be the sole
focus of IGC. The Caucus has been up and running well before IGF. I
suspect the idea behind that statement was that IGC is about the IG
component of the WSIS process and follow-up. However, I don't think it
is a stretch to think that IGC is the forum that organizes and ensures
a voice for CS in matters of internet governance in global/
transnational and multistakeholder processes. And cybersecurity has a
place in there. Now, the Caucus may deliberate whether they want to be
involved or not.

That being said, the risk of diluting our attention/resources is a
serious one I agree we need to keep in mind during such deliberations.

Best,

Mawaki

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This only makes sense to me to an extent.  The extent to which the IGC still cares about the IGF is a mystery to me.  And as long as it is totally controlled by the UN, I wonder whether it makes sense as the sole focus of this group.  I do not think so.  And to put things off until we have finished the May consultation males no sense at all - especially when something comes with a do by date.
>
> I am certainly not in favor of the coordinators becoming representatives on any body.  I think the duties are contradictory.  I think being on Advisory Groups, Boards, Councils, Steering Groups and the like is incompatible with coordinating a caucus that is trying to get more access to the points of view of civil society.  But that is just me.
>
> It is too bad that we were never able to get off the dime on Nomcom reforms as proposed by Jeremy, in this case, the one yearly nomcom to do all nomcomish activities, then it would be possible to come up with representatives for a all sort of maybe worthwhile activities.  Especially with the difficulty we are having in even creating a single function nomcom to replace the appeals team i am allegedly a members of (hence my not having volunteered).
>
> Oh well, one wonders what can we really get done.  But I think having a voice on many groups would be a good thing if we become a functional caucus again.
>
> I do not think that IGF is worth being the sole focus.  An important focus yes, but not to the exclusion of all of the other multistakeholder model situations that are beginning to spring up.
>
> avri
>
>
>
> On 29 Apr 2012, at 08:26, McTim wrote:
>
>>
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>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:09 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>> +1.
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> McTim
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