[Mmwg] Suggestion for consultation

[William Drake]

Agree with Jeanette.  The problem is that in an open forum, lots of people
want to speak as CS who don't work with us so we can't coordinate with them
on keeping it short and to the point, and some didn't---there were some
long, rambling, rather pointless interventions.  Barely any governments got
to speak in the afternoon, and the Iranian ambassador got annoyed and said
if this is what peer level openess means, we don't want it, let's go to the
ILO model with designated reps speaking etc.  Ok, not our favorite
government, but I'll bet that MANY government reps were thinking something
similar, and Markus expressed concern about the potential impact on their
willingness to seriously engage in the process.  I encouraged him to suggest
that Nitan set a three minute rule or something, but who knows.

We'll have to think about this, in any event.

BD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mmwg-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:mmwg-bounces at wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of Jeanette Hofmann
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:09 AM
> To: Vittorio Bertola
> Cc: mmwg at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [Mmwg] Suggestion for consultation
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> Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> > carlos a. afonso ha scritto:
> >
> >> In my view, the caucus declaration read today by Jeanette, and the APC
> >> response to the IGF questionnaire (and presented also today by
> Karen B),
> >> are what could be done on the part of CS in time for this initial
> >
> >
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> > I think that in terms of result it is a success, much better than when
> > Jeanette/Adam were reading a pre-packaged document that took days to
> > agree on, and that was often forced towards a lowest common
> denominator.
> > I like this modality more, even when we disagree (we said some
> > contradictory things in our statements, but I think that this enriches
> > the discussion rather than disturbing it).
>
> My impression was that we got away with the strategy this time but won't
> in the future. I will soon get on the governments' nerves when 15 people
> speak and not just 3 or 4. They expect some effort in aggregating
> positions. Rightly so, I think.
> jeanette
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