[governance] Update from today's MAG call

[McTim]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:05 PM, George Sadowsky
<george.sadowsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> I think that national and regional IGFs should be able to make the
> decisions regarding the nature of their IGFs that are consistent with the
> needs an desires of those countries and regions. The IGF is not a franchise
> operation within which the top can dictate the behavior of the smaller
> meetings presumably feeding into it.
>
> In fact, it would be more appropriate if  representatives of those smaller
> meetings agreed upon the policies associated with the global IGF, not the
> other way around.  This should not be a top down operation.
>
> The reason that the "no commercial recognition" policy applies to the
> global IGF is that it is a UN sponsord meetng, and therefore UN rules
> apply.  This is not true for regional and national IGFs.
>
> Note that I am not saying anything about the desirability or
> non-desirability of such a policy at lower levels, but rather that it is
> their decision to make on an individual basis, not a decision or even a
> recommendation that should be made at a global level.
>
>
>
>
+1 to all of the above!

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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