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

[Milton Mueller]

>>> "Luc Faubert" <LFaubert at conceptum.ca> 1/27/2006 11:18 AM >>>
>1. Plenary voting
>6.0 still requires voting by plenary (on WG resolutions, WG leaders and 
>WG creation). How is voting done? See next point for potential solution.

The issue is not just "how" is voting done but _whether_ it should be done. 

I don't like 6.0 that much. I think there is no way around the need for a small Council/Bureau to take a lot of the heat off of the Plenary, so that it can actually have free-ranging discussions. I don't believe it is feasible, or desirable, to do away with the Plenary, either. WGs in my view have no point if not to feed things into a wide discussion.

There is an unfortunate disconnect between this group, composed entirely of CS, and the other sectors. Whatever form the IGF takes, it will have to be acceptable to govts and PS. Govs in particular are not used to working in IETF style. Let's be aware of that.