[WSIS CS-Plenary] PCT and WGIG

[Georg C. F. Greve]

 || On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:53:00 -0500
 || "Milton Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote: 

 mm> Let me clarify. I'm not "explaining" anything. I wasn't part of
 mm> the Governance Caucus group that passed recommendations to
 mm> Kummer, nor was I present when Kummer and Kofi Annan made their
 mm> final selections. So I have no clue as to what their methodology
 mm> or thinking was regarding the FS nominees.

As far as I know and from what has been said by others before, Markus
Kummer and Kofi Annan essentially followed the recommendations made by
the Internet Governance Caucus.

So while you are certainly right that they are ultimately responsible
for the selection, they apparently weren't the ones making it.


 >> Excluding a whole group of people on grounds of prejudice towards
 >> some of its participants seems a questionable policy [snip]

 mm> Yes, but you need to entertain the possibility that it wasn't
 mm> prejudice.

The alternative to prejudice would have been deliberate spreading of
obvious falsehoods and derogatory statements with the goal of smearing
and discrediting others.

I was merely giving you the benefit of the doubt.


 mm> Now the choices have been made, and cannot be changed. 

If we don't do anything, nothing will change for sure.

That is why we made very concrete suggestions and requests.

Regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
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