[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] MAG dictates rules and agenda for IGF?

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> I think that the key factor is whether the MAG will start to censor 
> themes that are disliked by some of its members, or whether the IGF will 
> actually be the free space for discussion that was promised, so that all 
> of us can organize workshops on our important themes and get their 
> results into the process.

This is a matter of interpretation. It is unlikely that any of the MAG 
members would officially support censorship. However, the majority of 
those who speak up support a narrow focus of the first forum. The reason 
given is that they don't want to organize just a "talk shop" in Athens. 
Instead they would like to see clear outcomes or "take aways". Many 
members argue that the forum will only be a success if it has a very 
focused agenda.

I guess we have to take into account that people have different success 
criteria and also different expectations. It is important to spell out 
what we, as the caucus, expect and what we would regard as an acceptable 
compromise between the various opinions.

jeanette


> 
> Does anyone know whether procedures to propose and organize workshops 
> have already been defined? I think I have at least two that I would like 
> to co-organize with anyone else who might be interested.
> 
> Also, I think I've lost contact with the discussion on online working 
> groups at the IGF: where does it stand? Will it be possible to create 
> IETF-style WGs on bottom-up selected issues?