<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 13-Jan-06, at 10:39 AM, Luc Faubert wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV id="idOWAReplyText58373" dir="ltr"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> <DIV dir="ltr"> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr">NOTES</DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr">Inidividual representation</DIV> <DIV dir="ltr">No individuals representing themselves are allowed in the forum. The forum is a place for communities of interest to negociate and decide on issues. Individuals wishing to be heard will have to either lobby a party or create their own organization and seek accreditation. The requirement of 1000 members is intended to prevent fly-by-nighters and puts an emphasis on the need to organize in order to participate in fora.</DIV> <DIV dir="ltr"> </DIV> </FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>Luc:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I will send more comments later this weekend.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, at this point I want to say that I strongly disagree with your point that a min. # of 1000 members is needed. Many of the NGOs that participated in the WSIS process did not meet the threshold you mention, yet they were active and caused a significant and positive impact.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Another example is WGIG - the CS members that were selected didn't come from large organizations, but small ones. WGIG was seen to work well, and as such is an example worth building on.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In summary, The forum should be as open as possible and allowing groups of all size - large and small - should be a core value put forward by CS.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>regards</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Robert</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>