<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 jan 2006, at 13.55, Luc Faubert wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV id="idOWAReplyText49730" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">1. Scope of MMWG</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Interesting opinions by Gurstein and Currie, Jacqueline, but they concern mostly civil society's role in the MSH approach. From what I understand of our charter, our job is to come up with a global mechanism for all relevant parties to participate in IGF and other WSIS-related fora and to make recommendations to the UN secretariat.</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>well i think that certainly civil society is a prime concern, but yes, as the charter is currently written, we are setup to make general recommendations about how this can all be set up</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV id="idOWAReplyText49730" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">2. Timeline and deliverables</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Our charter mentions the MMWG is created for two years. When are our recommendations due? Wouldn't it be useful to establish a timeline and a clear definition of our deliverables that we all agree on?</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>well for one milestone. it seems (according to latest rumors) that the first consulations for IGF will occur during Febraury. it would be good if we had some idea by then.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV id="idOWAReplyText49730" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">3. Mechanism</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> What's a mechanism? To me, it's a way of building things. A grammar and a vocabulary. It may be helpful for us to think of our job as coming up with the rules to build and operate a MSH decisional body rather than try to design the body ourselves. After that the different fora (IGF et al.) could use our mechanism to build and operate the MSH decisional body they require.</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>i think this is a good approach, but formulating some sample scenarios within that syntax might also be useful.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV id="idOWAReplyText49730" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">4. Representation</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">This brings us to the challenging issue of legitimacy and representation in the MSH process:</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">a) Who must be represented? (We already have some propositions from the list for this)</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">b) Who can legitimately represent groups who wish to be represented?</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">c) Can individuals represent themselves? In the affirmative, what is their relative importance vs. other individuals representing thousands or millions of individuals?</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">d) Who exactly do governments represent if the very people they are supposed to represent are represented by CS entities?</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">e) What does "equal participation" mean in the MSH context?</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>good questions. perhaps these could be the seed for a wiki exercise. certainly they seem like good things to explore in greater depth.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV id="idOWAReplyText49730" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">5. Post MMWG</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">What happens after we make our recommendations? Who makes the final decision on the MSH mechanism that will be used in IGF?</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>in the best of all possible worlds, we will recommend something perfect and it will be adopted perfectly and the group could blink out of existence.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>however, as far as can tell neither the recommendations nor the deployment will be perfect, so it may take a bunch of rethinking as things develop and i hope advocacy for the the things we propose. this could take a while.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>a.</DIV></BODY></HTML>