[governance] Re: CS strategic objectives in Internet governance

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 01/11/13 17:58, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> Apologies for cross posting but it seems needed.

+1 Bill, and you understand this already, but just in case anyone else
is confused, /the coalition/dialogue is not a Best Bits initiative./ 
The civil society representatives to the coalition/dialogue were simply
put forward (in something of a hurry, it must be said) at a meeting that
we organised.  Therefore, whilst the civil society reps can pass along
your points (and have already made similar points, as I understand), it
isn't in their hands alone to open up the coalition/dialogue list. 
Therefore perhaps your message wasn't cross-posted widely enough!

> As for the composition, if I understand correctly, you say there
> are 21 reps of business and the TC, plus 4 reps of CS, drawn solely
> from the Best Bits contingent of folks who were able to be in Bali.
>  While you four are of course all great reps, this is obviously not a
> good inter-stakeholder group balance, and more people should be drawn
> in (although obviously not to the point of having a huge and
> unworkable group).

Or else, another option is ultimately to pull out of the coalition/dialogue.

> I think there's a need to reach beyond just the IGF-oriented chunk of
> CS. ... Same goes if there's consideration being given to other
> relevant coalitions, whether issue-based (privacy, IPR, whatever) or
> org-based (OECD CSISAC etc).  We need to evolve some sort of
> principled basis for doing this.

Absolutely agree.

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