[governance] RE: IGF Establishment

[Katitza Rodriguez]

comments below

On 5/30/12 12:57 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> On 30/05/2012 18:13, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>>> >>  -----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.
>> >  

FYI: This MAG composition keeps most of the first MAG generation in 
their position as MAG Member. The  rotation of old-MAG members in this 
latest election targeted mostly later MAG generations rather than the 
first one. No news here just a reminder.

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Katitza Rodriguez
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