[governance] Message to the IGC [Call for Wider Civil Society to engage in a Coalition]

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 8 Dec 2013, at 10:14 pm, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> There has been no approach from ISOC to join. As far as I know ISOC organises technical community representation for MAG CSTD etc so probably has a quite different role to perform.

For as long as ISOC is separately represented as part of a technical community stakeholder group, it is of course completely inappropriate for them to be part of the civil society coordination group and I would be strongly oppose that.

>  There has been confusion because some people are talking of a wider civil society coalition emerging (This prompted my questions and those of Carlos as to how this would relate to organisations such as Best Bits IGC etc). Although I have no problems which such an initiative if there is a need for it, I have made it clear that my personal involvement here is purely facilitating co-operation for the selection of common representatives, and any wider organisation establishment is a different process and will need to be facilitated separately. 

Let's see if we can make the existing coordination group work before we think about anything more ambitious.  It is deliberately lightweight and has a narrow focus, and I'm not sure that a good case has been made for anything more.

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