[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [CS Bureau] Evaluation and documentation of CS in WSIS

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

Dear Robert et al;

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> Tracey:
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> I consider the CS Bureau of WSIS to have dissolved when WSIS was  
> concluded.

1/ Such authoritarian statement should be avoided, unless you want to 
adopt the
presidential style of some regimes...

2/ Since the matter is of importance;
 it would help to know  if this is your personnal opinion,
or if it is the opinion of the North American family ?
Have you consulted the North American family on its mailing list,
and reach consensus on this important matter ?
Does the North American family has
decided to dissolve ?
( for the record, this message reflect my personnal opinion )

3/ this authoritarian consideration first applies to you, and therefore
you are free to resign from the CSB.
I am quite certain that there will be valuable and inclusive
people in North America willing to
take over your abandonned position at the CSB.

4/ Concerning Europe, it seems that you were no longer the Europe focal
point at the CSB during the latter stage of the Tunis phase, and this matter
has not been discussed on the EUC list.

> The CSB paralleled the Intergovernmental Bureau, and that  body ceased 
> to be at the summit proper in November. 

This self destruction clause was never discussed or even mentionned.  :-)

It is kindly suggested that the CSB ( possibly revisited )  shoudl 
continue its procedural role
with the gouvernamental bodies that are in fact the continuing the task of
the Intergovernmental Bureau considering procedural issues :  IGF and iSOC.
As it has been mentionned several times, the CSB is not the exact miror 
of the
Intergovernmental Bureau, and we are not enslaved to the governemental
processes.

> Should the CSB  wish to continue, then that mandate needs to come not 
> from the CSB -  but from Civil society groups that it is serving.

OK, now you are adopting a softer tone. but still having a neo-stalinian 
tendency
of rewriting history :
the mandate of the CSB never came from the CSB itself, but from the
Civil Society that created those structures during the PrepCom1 and 
PrepCom2 of the
first phase of the WSIS.
Of course, the Civil Society must evolve, but evolution
should not be synomym with self-destruction.
I guess it becomes urgent that the WGWM continues its task.

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> It is my strong belief that that discussion is long overdue and  
> should take place ASAP.
>
By itself, this statement proves that the WSIS process is still alive !!!

Good News indeed !

Lets concentrate all available energies
on positive initiative to reinforce the role of the
Civil Society in the follow-up process instead
turning them into an implosion !

Francis


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> Robert
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> On 24-Jan-06, at 5:34 AM, Tracey Naughton wrote:
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>> Hello All
>>
>> I am fascinated that the need for CSB 'reform' persists. I have a  
>> different view that concurs with that submitted by Al Alegre. My  
>> view is that the role of the CSB concluded at the end of the WSIS  
>> negotiations and that the thread that links that process with on  
>> going discussions is the Internet Governance Caucus, though this  may 
>> well limit the topics worthy of on-going efforts.
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