AW: [Mmwg] IGF mechanism 5.0

[Milton Mueller]

>>> Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> 1/21/2006 2:22 AM >>>
>Paradoxically, one of the points in favour of the "Bureau" 
>idea is that it would take away some of the heat from the 
>Plenary and working groups, and allow them to be much 
>more free and open. 

Here Vittorio and I strongly agree.

>In particular, you confine all discussions on distribution of 
>voting power (likely to be long and heated) to the structure 
>of the Bureau, possibly without letting 
>governments etc. realize that in practice it will be the working 
>groups, where consensus is actually formed, to spin the 
>forum in whichever direction.

Exactly.