[governance] Bad Behaviour

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Thu Jan 9 00:22:01 EST 2014


This vintage of grape seems to be unusually sour, I must say.

--srs (iPad)

> On 09-Jan-2014, at 10:45, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We have a self-selected group, purportedly representing "Civil Society" (the Best bits Coordinating Committee); being self-appointed to an, in turn, self-selected group which purports to also represent Civil Society but in some vaguer larger sense (the Civil Society Coordinating Committee-CS:CC); and then further self-selecting themselves or their designates to represent "civil society" on the Coordinating Group of further vague and extremely shadowy and so far with no provenance or transparency -- the Inet group. 
>  
> And then to pile on top of this we have authorities in Brazil (again extremely vague as to who exactly is involved) designating this shadowy Inet group to be the sole interface for all of the non-governmental sectors to be involved in what has been purported to be a Summit to discuss global Internet Policies and Principles...
>  
> And further we have this CS: CC going through an internal process among its self-appointed poobahs of horse-trading and other processes without apparent legitimacy or accountability and transparency (only by happy accident) to identify nominees for some elements of this self-same "Summit/err... meeting...
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> (I may have missed an illegitimacy or unaccountability there somewhere but you get my drift...
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