[governance] Re: important days and most important WCIT agenda itemd

[William Drake]

Hi

While people on delegations are not supposed to share the ITU's super secret documents, surely there can't be any harm in characterizing the schedule.  If I get a stern warning from the ITU's lurkers on this list then we'll know I've undone the natural order of the universe, I guess.

The latest version I have shows a heads of del meeting on day 1 plus opening ceremony,  plenary sessions days one and two (hopefully some foundational issues clarified), committee meetings days 3 and 4 (five of these--COM1=Steering;  COM2=Credentials;  COM3=Budget; COM4=Editorial;  COM5=Review, the most important, predominates) and WGs and stock taking plenary day 5.  Second week, WGs days one to three, and from there plenaries to finalize out texts, resolutions, etc. and do signing if possible, three to five.  So I guess if you read the agenda below against this timetable you get some idea how the flow may go.  If someone has more aggregated info that'd be great.

Best,

Bill

On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <CAHyAo0FZEMXivx3Yntu2RxT7h2s5iXHboLsv3RnE4Ya8PQWr1Q at mail.gmail.com>, at 03:16:45 on Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> writes
>> 
>> Dear Roland and Adam
>> 
>> Thank you.  
>> 
>> All I could find was this:
>> 
>> Document info
>>> Meeting: 
>>> WCIT (3-14 Dec 12)
>>> File name: 
>>> S12-WCIT12-C-0001!!MSW-E
>>> 
>>> Opening
>>> Election of the Chairman and Vice-Chairmen
>>> Other administrative issues including requests for participation 
>> received from international organizations, observers, etc.
>>> Discussion and decisions regarding the structure of the Conference
>>> Introduction of the Report of the preparatory process
>>> Examination of the outputs of the preparatory process
>>> Examination of proposals from Member States
>>> Discussion of the proposed revisions to the ITRs, as appropriate
>>> Discussion of WATTC-88 Resolutions, Recommendations, and Opinion
>>> Adoption of the Final Acts of the Conference, including revised ITRs 
>> and Resolutions, Recommendations, and Opinions, as appropriate
>>> Determine the date of coming into force of the Final Acts of the 
>> Conference and, if necessary, on the provisional application of certain part(s) of the Final Acts
>>> Closure (including signing ceremony
> 
> That's the agenda, it just isn't a timetable.
> 
> I would expect the timetable to emerge (and evolve) as the meeting progresses.
> 
> For example, I'm fairly sure it was the "Structure of the conference" session that I last attended which decided how the various proposals would be bundled together, which were then discussed in parallel sessions (tracks) containing broadly similar proposals. Each track then "merged" their proposals and brought the results back to plenary for further discussion by all.
> 
> Until the number of tracks and the contents of each bundle is agreed (obviously the chair and secretariat will have a draft of that already, but the conference has to agree it) then you can't publish a timetable either for each track, or indeed for the regular report-backs on progress to plenary sessions throughout the week.
> 
> You need one report-back session per track, so you don't know their timetable until you know how many tracks; and some tracks will finish their work before others, spin off ad-hoc groups to tackle controversial topics in more detail, and so on.
> 
> It's much more like a CSTD meeting than an ICANN meeting.
> 
> The challenge for an individual at such a conference (and I'm assuming that WCIT will be this type of conference) is the sheer number of things happening simultaneously, at short notice, and often late into the night; which really needs a team to be able to follow properly.
> -- 
> Roland Perry
> 
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