[governance] High-Level Panel Organizes to Address Future of Internet Governance

[John Curran]

On Nov 17, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 
> Without knowing a lot more about this, it is way early to comment, or commit to supporting it.

I don't know if one "supports" a high-level panel; all we know is that it 
is going to consider the subject and then produce an output.  There does 
not appear to be much more to it (e.g. will the panel members seek input 
on their own, or collectively, or ?), but that could also be details still 
to be worked out.

Lynn St. Amour provides some more context about it in her recent blog post -
<http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/11/global-panel-address-future-internet-governance>

"This panel is one of many groups addressing Internet Governance issues and is not meant to take the place of those efforts, serve as a new institutional framework, or to produce solutions or agreements—it’s an opportunity to help evolve or look for new processes.

The output from the panel is expected to serve as only one contribution to the multi-stakeholder high level meeting being planned in Brazil for late April/early May."

As long as the output is considered in that context, I don't particularly
see any harm from it, and who knows - it could actually produce insights
that help.

FYI,
/John





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