[governance] caucus contribution, consultation and MAG meeting

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> On 31/01/2013, at 7:58 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> > Could you please have a look at Baudouin Schombe's comments on
> > paragraphs 4 and 5 of the draft text at
> > http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/archives/79
> > 
> > Maybe someone is able to make a good specific suggestion on how to
> > improve our draft text on the basis of these comments?
> 
> 
> This is a bit wordy but "Main sessions and workshops should not be
> competing with each other, as they are not substitutes.  Workshops
> are the best forum for self-selected groups to exchange information,
> opinions and experiences.  These can be more productive than main
> sessions, but are often limited to narrow communities of interest and
> can therefore lack external impact.  Main sessions are better for
> bringing the insights developed through workshops and dynamic
> coalition members to the broader community of IGF participants,
> including those with influence over or connections to processes of
> policy development.  Main sessions have the potential to allow for
> high-level consensus-building and strategising on how these insights
> can be reflected in policy and/or technical processes elsewhere,
> sometimes across issue areas: for example, messages on critical
> Internet resources might also be relevant to those involved in
> security or openness issues and vice versa.  Therefore main sessions
> should not be treated as just "big workshops" relevant only to those
> with topical interests, but should be for the broadest possible
> segment of the IGF community to attend.  This means not scheduling at
> least some key main sessions (but perhaps fewer of them overall) that
> do not coincide with workshops."

Thanks a lot Jeremy. I've added essentially all of this to the
beginning of paragraph 4 for now (making that paragraph overly long,
but we can fix that later - if we subdivide a paragrah now, that'll
mess up the correspondence between paragraohs and comments).

Greetings,
Norbert 

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