[Mmwg] IGF mechanism version 6.0 (less is more??)

[McTim]

Hi Luc, et. al.,

I've stripped down your proposal to it's bare bones, and tried to
remove bits that have been objected to by folk.  Any takers?


Plenary
- Composed of entities, people, etc
- Discusses (but cannot change) a resolution supplied by working
groups and adopts them (or not) as IGF recommendations.
- Expected to conduct its business online whenever possible. Online
communications will be in English (due to the costs that translating
all email would entail).
- One yearly physical meeting
- All entities, people, etc., have equal speaking rights.
- Interpretation is available in the 6 UN languages for physical meetings.

Working groups
- Open to all (including all plenary entities).
- They do their business online and meet physically annually.
- Their job is to agree on recommendations that are reported to the
plenary, and to the Internet Community at large
- Working group Chairs call rough consensus.
- Because working groups must be global by nature, their working
language is English.
- All resolutions submitted to the plenary must be made available in
all UN languages.
- All working groups use the same online tools.


+++  Procedures

Bootstrap loader
1. Interim Chair is Nitin Desai and interim Secretariat is Markus Kummer.
2. After an open call for nominations, Chair and Secretariat are
elected for a 2-year term. Both can be reelected for any number of
terms.


Working group creation
- Proposals for working groups are submitted to Chair/Secretariat by
interested parties along with their suggestions for co-leaders.
- An open call for WG leader nominations is issued by Secretariat.
- Chair-Secretariat can veto creation of ill-defined working groups
(irrelevant to IGF mandate, unrealistic scope, and scope overlap with
existing WGs).
- Plenary votes on working group creation.
- Plenary votes on WG leaders.

Default working group
- A working group on procedural issues is created by default.
- Its leaders are the Chair and the Secretariat.
- It is responsible for:
   - changes to IGF mechanism,
   - setting the agenda,
   - outline of meeting logistics,
   - software tools to be used by IGF.

Chair
- Presides over meetings.
- Reviews and approves proceedings reports submitted by Secretariat.

Secretariat
- Prepares Proceedings report.
- Administers web site and public communications of IGF.
- Handles logistics of IGF online and physical meetings.
- Receives nominations.
- Receives applications for the creation of working groups.




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Cheers,

McTim
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