[WSIS CS-Plenary] PCT and WGIG

[Beatriz Busaniche]

El sáb, 15-01-2005 a las 23:53 -0500, Milton Mueller escribió:

> 
> I was simply pointing out to you that doctrinaire and factional
> behavior is unlikely to create warm, fuzzy feelings among the people
> making the selections. More rationally, concerns about the rigidity of
> FS advocates might also raise doubts about their effectiveness on the
> WGIG. 

As far as apologies go, this must be the weakest one I ever saw.

Actually, I continue to resent your use of adjectives like "doctrinary"
and "factional", and "rigidity" sounds like a bad choice of word, maybe
you meant "consistency" or "coherence".

I would like to point out that people who insist on an idea you do not
agree with are not necessarily "doctrinary" o "factional". They just
disagree with you, there's no need to try to disqualify them personally.


> Now the choices have been made, and cannot be changed. So what do you
> propose to do going forward? [...] You do not have to be
> on the WGIG to affect its report, I would suggest (and hope).

This does happen quite a lot in WSIS, doesn't it?

Georg has very thoroughly documented that PCT issues were not going to
be discussed in WGIG, which is why we thought it was acceptable if no
PCT representative was present at the table.

*After* the WGIG was nominated, PCT issues were brought back to the
agenda, and now we're supposed to just accept it like that, and
contribute papers which the WGIG members have no obligation to observe,
answer or even read, and the best we have is the suggestion and hope of
someone who keeps dismissing us as some kind of extremist fringe group.

I feel a lot more confident already.