[governance] Re: [CoNE-elist 632] Agenda EMC meeting

[Milton L Mueller]

I would share Norbert's concerns about a draft initial input. 

But I would not advocate going into the meeting with a completely blank slate.

Why can't the people preparing an initial document try to establish only basic agenda items with pointers to each of the contributions and perhaps outline the similarities and differences among the proposals? 

For example, presuming there are proposals for IANA globalization, you set aside part of the agenda for that, you list all the various proposals about it, with URLs to them, and at most come up with a list of questions to be resolved by the meeting


Milton L Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Internet Governance Project
http://internetgovernance.org




-----Original Message-----
At the Paris WSIS+10 there was a draft document provided by UNESCO as initial input into the process that created the output document. This initial input got changed to the extent that it was possible, during the very limited and really quite insufficient amount of time available, to reach consensus in favor of proposed changes.

If that kind of process is used again, then it is I think quite plausible to predict that the outcome document would resemble the “initial input”.

I'd strongly prefer the work of the São Paulo meeting to start not with a pre-prepared initial draft document, but with a blank slate. The compilation of contributions is still important of course, but as a compilation of ideas that the participants of the meeting can draw upon for proposing additions to the (initially empty) working document.

Greetings,
Norbert

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