[Mmwg] IGF Input

[Vittorio Bertola]

Il giorno lun, 27/02/2006 alle 17.20 +0300, McTim ha scritto:
>         I'm still having a hard time following your argument.  Please
>         help?
> Ok, I'll use smaller words ;-) 

The more I read this quarrel about whether stakeholder groups should be
three or four, the more I revise my opinions and think that the IGF
should just be a set of "wise people" that surely can be loosely mapped
to stakeholders, but do not "represent" them strictly, in the sense of
rigidly defined quotas and partitions.

This was the mechanism adopted for the WGIG, where you could sure see
some balance and subdivision in different subgroups, but people were
"amorphously" put together in a blob of experts that, in the overall,
provided all necessary viewpoints and backgrounds and ensured that no
one felt completely excluded. (Well, free software people did, and there
were some gov people who never spoke once and clearly were there only to
mark the territory, but more or less the spirit of selections was the
one I described.)

The key qualities for these people should be openmindedness, commitment,
reachability, integrity... rather than simply being representative of
this or that group.

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