[governance] Fwd: Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

[McTim]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:59 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> BTW, the definition employed by the OECD for technical community in our very
> area of Internet governance in terms of forming stakeholder groups can be
> seen here.
>
> You will see non ISOC, non ICANN, non RIR organisations as founding members
> of the Technical Community Advisory Group to OECD Intern policy making
> process. Organisations like Internet2 which is 'community of U.S. and
> international leaders in research, academia, industry and government who
> create and collaborate via innovative technologies'.
>
> And these are just founding members of the Technical Community Advisory
> Group, others can join in. But what we have from the definition that was
> employed by the Focal point for selecting technical and academic community
> reps to the WG on EC, someone applying say from the "internet2' project/
> community would not have qualified.


you are incorrect.  The folk who are involved in Internet2, amongst
other REN projects are EXACTLY those people that the FP would include.


>
> Strange that they qualify for OECD body as technical community but not for
> the UN system.....
>
> Evidently, the definition of even the technical community part of the
> 'technical and academic community' employed by the Focal point is erronoeus,
> what to say about the 'academic community' part which seem to have simply
> been banished.

but they haven't been, you are simply mistaken.

-- 
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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