[CS Bureau] IGF legal process and IGF bureau

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

Dear members of the Bureau

In regards to the IGF process, since the bureau
is concerned with procedural questions for the
overall implementation of the WSIS,
I would like to draw your attention
on a
study of the legal process of the IGF
of which I am the main author
has been put online just now at
http://www.wsis-pct.org/ --> IGF
or directly at
http://www.wsis-si.org/igf.html

This is a draft.
It basically says that the IGF process
is currently operating in a legal vacuum,
and new avenues of International Public Law
must be explored to implement a
a  UN full  multi-stakeholder
process for which UN has no rules yet.

This is a real legal challenge, and
the consequences
in terms of recognition of Civil Society
can be very important and positive.

A civil society bureau is mentionned in the
study, but it does not mean that it should
be the CSB in its current composition.
An update is needed and financial support
should be found to ensure an inclusive
participation from all stakeholders,
and specifically from LDCs, transition countries,
and financially stricken stakeholders
  in industrialized countries.
The IGF process may provide such an opportunity.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome

Best

Francis



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