AW: [Mmwg] IGF mechanism 5.0

Luc Faubert LFaubert at conceptum.ca
Sat Jan 21 08:22:24 GMT 2006


Version 5.0 allows everybody (govs, orgs [accredited or not] AND individuals) to participate in *working groups* and thus discuss and elaborate final text which makes up the resolutions that are submitted to the Plenary for voting. Sorry if this wasn't clear in the wording I used. Nobody is excluded from working groups except the Chair and the Secretariat (this way they can be called in as facilitators in case of deadlock).

So only the Plenary is restricted to govs and accredited orgs and these guys only vote on resolutions; they can't change the text drafted by working groups. They can discuss, ask questions about the resolutions and express their opinion about them, but at one point the Chair calls the vote.

Some of you have mentioned the idea of accrediting individuals or "experts". Is it because you really want individuals to participate in the Plenary and have the right to vote? If so, as Vittorio, I am wary about their vote overtaking the ORGs group. If people can't live without individuals having the right to vote in the Plenary (and I still don't see why this is absolutely necessary), the only way I see we could achieve this without compromising the balance of power in the ORGs group would be to put a cap on the accredited individuals/orgs ratio in the ORGs group.

As for stakeholder categories, dividing the Plenary in just 2 groups and putting all orgs (business, CS, technical, academic, NGOs) in the same group eliminates the need to bother with stakeholder branding altogether.


- Luc Faubert
ISOC Québec

 

 


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