[governance] ECTF draft revised

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> Norbert, how about adding the working group on promoting and
> assessing, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in
> Internet governance processes, to the ECTF proposal?  As William
> notes is one of the important missing elements of the IGF"s mandate,
> and also one I suggested for the new body that I outlined at
> http://jere.my/l/2w.  I don't feel that yet another dynamic coalition
> would do this justice.

Agreed; added to the draft... I've put the revised up again at
http://enhanced-cooperation.org/RFA/1 (would it be beneficial to
also have stable URLs for specific versions of the draft?)

I have also made a number of other changes. Here's the full list of 
substantive changes:

* Removed the assertion about the ITU being in violation of para 68 of
  the Tunis Agenda by still routinely excluding civil society
  stakeholders from participation in consultation processes, since
  after ITU's recent announcement it is not clear whether this
  criticism is still valid.
* Added a reference to APC's working group proposal together with the
  information that the UN has not heeded this proposal.
* Improved the wording the end of the introduction to make clear
  that "operationalized emphasis on human rights together with the
  principle of evidence based decision making" is not claimed to be
  somehow a full analogue of the IETF's "running code" principle, but
  only something that might provide similarly valuable guidance.
* Section 4.2: Improved the sanctioning process. The relevant
  responsibility of the Secretariat now consists only in "reminding
  participants, when this may be necessary, of the principles of
  professionally respectful conduct, or of international human rights
  law, or of the Terms of Reference of the particular Working-Group",
  and "if and only if such reminders prove ineffective," to request
  the Committee to decide an "appropriate sanction which may take the
  form of barring specific persons from participation in ECTF for a
  specific amount of time." The Committee can decide to impose such
  sanctions only by consensus or rough consensus but not by majority
  voting.
* Section 4.6.2: Clarified Committee member selection in the case of
  lack of agreement
* Section 4.6.2: Clarified that the Committee may make majority
  decisions only with regard to the Secretariat. (The reason why
  majority decisions of the Committee are allowed in regard to the
  Secretariat is to avoid e.g. risk of ECTF being crippled by a
  dysfunctional Secretariat and lack of rough consensus in the
  Committee on who should be hired to run the Secretariat.)
* Revised section 4.6.3 on funding.
* New section 5.1: Added a "WG on implementation of WSIS principles"
  to "promote and assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS
  principles in Internet governance processes" (as suggested by Jeremy).

Greetings,
Norbert

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