[Mmwg] With the elections over... can we get to thesubject at hand ?

ian.peter at ianpeter.com ian.peter at ianpeter.com
Wed Feb 22 23:41:16 GMT 2006


I can do Australia if it matters -

but are governments really going to join a CS chaired group and is the purpose
of this group to be a CS working group or an all-in working group?

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Quoting Luc Faubert <LFaubert at conceptum.ca>:

> Governments move in packs. I doubt any of them will accept to join 
> unless they know that other govs will also be here.
>
> We could improve our chances of success by individually lobbying 
> specific governements to participate with a "promise" that there will 
> be others, and when we get a few of them to agree, they could join 
> together--which has to be really quick, as Milton has been stressing. 
> Additionnally, those that join should ideally be from different 
> "groups", not just the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, et 
> al. group.
>
> Robert takes care of Canada.
> Milton does the US.
>
> I think we also need Iran, Brazil, Pakistan, China, the EU, an 
> African country and ???
>
> Who can take care of those?
>
> I can try to get Argentina in through ISOC Argentina.
>
>
> - Luc Faubert
> ISOC Québec
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mmwg-bounces at wsis-cs.org
>> [mailto:mmwg-bounces at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of Milton Mueller
>> Sent: 22 février 2006 17:04
>> To: rguerra at lists.privaterra.org; mmwg at wsis-cs.org
>> Subject: Re: [Mmwg] With the elections over... can we get to
>> thesubject at hand ?
>>
>> >>> Robert Guerra <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org> 2/22/2006
>> >2. How multi-stakeholder in fact is this list? Is it
>> intended just for
>> >CS? If not, then how can we extend invitations to get key
>> members from
>> >the private sector and governments subscribed to the discussions.
>>
>> Another excellent point. Robt you are reputed to have good
>> connections to the Canada govt. Invite them! I will take a
>> stab at the U.S. (wish me luck!)
>>
>>
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