[governance] Re: [bestbits] [bit of news] on Brazilian announcement for the Summit

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I will oppose this on principle as drawing any sort of artificial distinction between the technical community and civil society is counterproductive in the long run.

--srs (iPad)

> On 14-Nov-2013, at 15:29, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 14/11/13 12:00, parminder wrote:
>>>> Once again, as suggested by Matthew, I do believe a formal letter
>>>> nominating and explaining our role as liasons, and not
>>>> representatives, for International Civil Society for information
>>>> regarding the Summit will be good to legitimate and help our job
>>>> here.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A formal letter naming our liaisons and making it clear that global
>>> civil society would want to use this mechanism to coordinate its
>>> role in the proposed Brazil meeting and not go through 1net or any
>>> other tehcnical community led interface is of the highest priority
>>> at this stage. Dont want to get into I-told-you-so mode, but I have
>>> been insisting that we did that first and in clear terms since our
>>> earliest meetings in Bali. If we have got such a communication
>>> through in clear terms, maybe our four reps would have been there
>>> at the above meeting. At least if they werent invited we could have
>>> protested...
>> 
>> Draft letter is here: http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/brazil-reps
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert

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