[governance] Request for comment on proposal for IGF multistakeholder opinions

Sat May 18 13:01:08 EDT 2013

Jeremy

I have been unable to figure out if this is about the Brazil's WTPF 
opinion proposal or it is about proposing a plan for IGF making 
recommendations. Can you please clarify.

If it is about the Brazilian proposal, would you explain why do you find 
this particular issue is of such an outstanding significance over so 
many others.... I for one could never clearly understand the intent and 
significance of the Brazilian proposal, and I think different players 
are making different things of it. I dont see it as very significant 
thing and I am happy to let it die or disappear,  I prefer to discuss 
issues which have some clarity about them. Brazilian proposal, and its 
intent, and different people's take on it, simply do not make clear 
sense to me. Taking such a rather unclear issue to the IGF as the first 
test of IGF's recommendation making capacity to me doesnt sound as an 
exciting idea.  A good issue to test IGF's recommendation capacity will 
be such a one which everyone understands in the same way but people 
still have different views about it. And something which is really 
important. And Brazilian proposal seems to be as one of the worst 
candidates. However, I am happy to be explained the meaning and 
significance of the Brazilian proposal.

parminder

On Saturday 18 May 2013 10:17 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is to an extend an invitation to participants from the IGC and 
> IRP to join Best Bits participants in working on a draft proposal that 
> we intend to put to next week's IGF open consultation meeting.  The 
> initiative for this proposal comes out of what happened at the World 
> Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum (WTPF) this week, when Brazil's 
> proposal for a seventh opinion of the meeting, titled 
> "Operationalizing the role of Government in the multi-stakeholder 
> framework for Internet Governance", failed mainly due to lack of time. 
>  I won't say anything more about its substantive content here (though 
> that is a worthy subject for a separate thread), but you can download 
> the draft opinion at http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13-C-0005/en or 
> read it online at 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTewmlgXNTRYuPvIWylV2K39owgXH8st642I7IaXjh0/edit.
>
> Almost all stakeholders at WTPF agreed that the opinion should be 
> considered further, but there is a question as to where this should 
> happen.  Two options are that the opinion would be finalised by the 
> ITU's Council Working Group on Internet policy (CWG-Internet), which 
> is government-only and meets behind closed doors, or that it would go 
> to the IGF.  In terms of our ability to have input into the text of 
> the opinion, the latter is obviously the better option.  But various 
> developing countries objected to this, correctly, on the basis that 
> the IGF does not have the ability to conclude formal outputs.
>
> The draft proposal addresses this tension, by proposing a new 
> output-oriented main session that would enable the IGF to facilitate 
> the finalisation of the draft opinion, but without requiring changes 
> to the IGF that would enable it to negotiate formal recommendations. 
>  I won't repeat everything in the proposal, but in short, the main 
> session would aim to produce a "multistakeholder opinion" that would 
> be non-binding, would be an output /at/ the IGF rather than /of/ the 
> IGF, and would be endorsed individually rather than being attributed 
> to the IGF as a whole.
>
> If (after reading it!) you would like to discuss the ideas in the 
> proposal in general, you can do so on this list and/or on the Best 
> Bits list, but if you would like to suggest concrete textual changes 
> to the proposal, you can do so on this pad, which currently contains a 
> first draft:
>
> http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/igf-opinions
>
> The deadline for finalising the proposal is short because the IGF open 
> consultation commences on Tuesday.  Therefore we are accepting input 
> on the text of the proposal only until 9am Monday, and shortly 
> thereafter it will be opened for endorsements via the Best Bits 
> website.  The proposal will be presented at the open consultation 
> meeting on behalf of however many organisations or individuals have 
> endorsed it at that time.
>
> Note that this proposal is intended to be a fairly modest yet 
> important step forward towards tangible outputs, but the 
> "multistakeholder opinion" process isn't in itself put forward as the 
> fulfilment of the enhanced cooperation mandate.  Rather, it is a step 
> along that path, acknowledging that, for now, the IGF and enhanced 
> cooperation processes remain on a dual track (the Tunis Agenda 
> suggests this anyway, but it was formalised as a condition of the 
> IGF's renewal to satisfy developing country concerns that the IGF had 
> not adequately addressed their concerns).
>
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