[governance] Fwd: Your sign on requested- Civil society statement post-WCIT

[McTim]

Michael,

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:39 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not think that the IGC should endorse this nor would I encourage other
> CS organizations to "sign on"... And I would strongly object to this
> statement anointing itself as the spokerspersons for either Civil Society or
> the BestBits group.

What exactly do you object to in the text?

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> As I've been trying to say in my last few blogposts, I think that CS comes
> out of WCIT with an enormous set of opportunities, but with those
> opportunities go very significant responsibilities...
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> I think those responsibilities are not towards support for certain national,
> corporate or sectional interests

What text of the statement points to interests and not values?

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> Unfortunately I see only a very limited set of these norms which I
> understand to underlie our common position in CS/IGC represented in the
> AccessNow statement.


My sense is that this in NOt a AccessNow statement, but a wider CS
statement that will get a large number of signatories.

If IGC doesn't sign on to this, will we be making our own statement
that will come out of Sala's Framework?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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