[governance] RE: IGF Establishment

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> Parminder:
> Going back to the early days of the IGF, the IGF establishment firmly blocked
> any reference to EC in MAG discussion.
> 
> Wolfgang:
> Can you clarify what the "IGF establishment" is?

Rushing to Parminder's defense, as I always do ;-), I suspect that he means what I call the IGF "doves;" i.e., the US, Australia, UK, Canada, western telecom interests, ISOC, ICANN people in IGF who wanted the IGF to be a conference and not a place for negotiating or agreeing upon actual governance. Those folks had a pretty firm grip on the first MAG, if you'll recall. And the US, EC (I think) and Australia spoke out directly in one of the early consultations trying to separate IGF from EC. 



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