[governance] CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation : Update

[Norbert Bollow]

Sala <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >  On 15/03/13 16:16, parminder wrote:
> >
> > Therefore, indeed, selections for reps from 'academic and technical'
> > community should have considered nominations of both 'technical' and
> > academic persons, from anywhere and everywhere . It is absolutely
> > wrong to limit it to those who work for technical bodies. It is
> > also wrong to limit this category to technical people alone or to
> > technical academics and exclude other academics connected to
> > Internet matters. It seems that the focal point for nominations for
> > this community has committed either both or at least the latter of
> > these two errors.
> >
> >
> > So, what to do?  I don't think it would be out of place for the IGC
> > to write a letter to ISOC and/or to the Chair of the CSTD Working
> > Group pointing out the error.  Civil society has a valid role as
> > watchdog to play here, and furthermore constitutes a large part of
> > the cross-cutting constituency that ISOC is supposed to be
> > representing.  I would be happy to help draft a letter, if there
> > was any chance that the Caucus could reach a rough consensus to
> > send it (which I'm unsure of).
>
> Please go ahead and draft a letter and we can always put it to the
> community to solicit their input and comments.

There's different possible paths of action here. One is indeed to write
a letter in the "watchdog" role just like it would also be appropriate
to write a letter on any other serious misconduct in any other area of
public policy making.

Another possible path of action is to do a more in-depth statement
reviewing all the selection processes that have been used for the
non-government invitees, and communicate that as appropriate, which
IMO means to disseminate it very widely.

I tend to think that maybe we should do both, with the watchdog type
letter being the urgent action that needs to be taken immediately.

Greetings,
Norbert

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