[governance] DMP} Proposed letter on role of Brazil liaisons

[Adam Peake]

An announcement from Brazil about the meeting is expected any time now.  Please do not send any letter until the Brazilian government's plans are clear. 

Adam

On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
> 
> Is there any way for this opposition "on principle" to be reconciled
> with the intention behind to proposed letter on the role of the
> liaisons?
> 
> If not, full consensus will clearly not be possible on this matter,
> and it may be appropriate to use the rough consensus process.
> 
> There was very strong support for what this letter has been proposed to
> express among the IGC members who participated in person in the
> relevant discussions in Bali.
> 
> The rough consensus process which is explicitly allowed by the IGC
> Charter could be implemented for example by means of using online
> polling software to determine whether there is an overwhelming majority
> of IGC members in support of such a letter. According to the Charter,
> such a rough consensus poll has to run at least 48 hours, then the
> coordinators would jointly decide to interpret the result as "rough
> consensus" or not. (That is of course a decision that can be appealed if
> desired.)
> 
> But we should certainly discuss the matter first.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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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