[governance] Re: ITU consultation and open access => IGF working groups

[Avri Doria]

On 18 Jul 2012, at 15:15, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>> 
>> But I also have to agree with Lee: the centerpiece of the campaign
>> has to be something more inspiring and motivating than whether we
>> call something a "working group." I would suggest that we find an
>> issue that people really want to do something about, such as
>> evaluating ICANN, ITU, etc. as Bill suggested, and try to gain
>> commitments from a critical mass of stakeholders to support some
>> long-term initiative around that.

> This is very very close to the ECTF proposal; as far as I can see
> the only significant difference being that the proposed ECTF has
> broader scope in that it is designed to be able to address, without
> need for a new major battle for creating each additional working-group,
> any number of such issues.


On the contrary,
I think at a certain point is that the ECTF proposal already presupposes too much:

For exampl is section 4.6

"
 A Secretariat for the ECTF shall be established with seat in Zurich,
   Switzerland.  
"

Seems to be jumping the gun just wee bit.

Certainly a discussion about the need for a secretariat function that had ... functions, but to already be putting the secretariat in a particular place seems peculiar.  And if we thing that CH is the right place, why not Geneva or some pretty little town right outside Geneva.  Given you want to get governments there, having it in Geneva or at most  a short train ride away with nice scenery and bars along the way, would be more likely to get participation.

This is just one place where the draft goes too far in imposing decisions that should not be made before the 

"
>> issue that people really want to do something about, such as
>> evaluating ICANN, ITU, etc. as Bill suggested, and try to gain
>> commitments from a critical mass of stakeholders to support some
>> long-term initiative
"

Like Jeremy's dissertation, there are good ideas in your I-D. But like the dissertation, it is really hard to accept it Lock, Stock and Barrel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock,_stock,_and_barrel>

avri



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