[governance] Re: [bestbits] Quick update on WGEC meeting day 1

[Adam Peake]

Thanks Avri,

Could you give a link to the document you refer to.  Or send a copy of the doc to the list.

Thanks,

Adam


On May 1, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Avri Doria wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Well day one came and went.
> 
> We reviewed some of the recommendation that had not yet been reviewed,
> and once again got hung up on the fundamental differences:
> 
> - Enhanced cooperation is only about governments
> - Enhanced cooperation is about all stakeholders.
> 
> - Para 32 says all there is to say about Respective Roles and
> Responsibilities
> - Para 32 needs to be revisited to match reality.
> 
> - WGEC needs to deliver a consensus report
> - WGEC can come out with a report that reports the varying models
> 
> - We trust the chair and he can write a chapeau discussing the
> differences of viewpoint.
> - we like the chair, but he is just human, we need to write up our own
> viewpoints.
> 
> - we should go back to our hotels and write up a brief (several line)
> opinion of Enhanced Cooperation and Multistakeholderism
> - we don't need to do this but should continue working on trying to find
> the item(s) we can reach consensus on.
> 
> (I expect most groups have been doing the homework just in case there is
> a quiz)
> 
> 
> The Sessions are broadcast live.  I do not know if there are archived
> recording, but there probably are - I will check.  The CSTD secretariat
> has come a long way in the short year this WG has been working.  From a
> first meeting where streaming was not possible, to a meeting 11 months
> later, with streaming and remote participation for absent WG members -
> not that any did participate as far as I know.
> 
> Process wise, Observers are allowed to comment but only in a 15 minute
> slot just before breaks.
> 
> While we had brief reports on NETmundial, the IGF, ITU activities etc,
> these were not discussed as there were those who argued that these were
> not immediately relevant to the work of the WGEC which has its own
> mandate. The chair concurred.
> 
> Tomorrow is another day.
> 
> avri
> 
> (a cs nominated member of the wgec)
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