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<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>"Le difficile c'est
d'inventer, là où le souvenir vous retient."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial> - André Gide, Journal
des Faux-monnayeurs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thank you to all who've contributed. It's fascinating
to see the mechanism evolve and I hope, along with David, that we will see more
contributions on the list. There are many people here who have not posted yet
and our process would benefit from their input.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Here's another try at the mechanism. I have freely pulled
together many of our ideas into another iteration. I've taken the liberty of
numbering this iteration. It may help us when referring to different
iterations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>+++ IGF Mechanism 5.0</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>Why not do without the
Bureau/Steering committee altogether?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>We could have just 2 parts:
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>the plenary (the decisional body) and the
working groups (for consultation and final text
elaboration).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>Plenary</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Composed of entities
divided in 2 groups: governments (GOVs) and accredited organizations
(ORGs).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Discusses (but cannot
change) </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT
face=Arial>resolutions supplied by working groups and votes on their
adoption.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Votes accreditation of
new organizations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Expected to conduct its
business online whenever possible. Online communications will be in English (due
to the costs that translating all email would entail).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- One yearly physical meeting is held
in a room large enough to seat at least one delegate for each plenary member. When
room allows, an equal number of additional delegates from each entity can
be present in the room.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- All entities have equal
speaking rights.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT
face=Arial></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Interpretation is
available in the 6 UN languages for physical meetings.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006></SPAN> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>Working
groups</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Open to all
(including all plenary entities, except
Chair and Secretariat).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- They do all their
business online.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Their job is to
agree on votable resolutions that are passed on to the
plenary.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>
- Working group leaders call rough consensus.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Because working groups
must be global by nature, their working language is English.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- All resolutions submitted to the
plenary must be made available in all UN
languages.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=547310402-20012006>- In case of deadlock, Chair and
Secretariat can be brought in together by any WG participant as
facilitators.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=547310402-20012006>- All working groups use the same
online tools.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>+++
Procedures</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>Bootstrap
loader</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial> 1. Interim
Chair is Nitin Desai and interim Secretariat is Markus
Kummer.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>2. All UN-recognized
governments are members of the plenary.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>3. All WSIS-accredited
orgs that express the wish to be part of the plenary are accepted "a
priori".</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>4. A plenary vote
is held on accreditation of each org in step 3 in order to reconfirm their
accreditation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>5. 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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>Voting</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- All voting requires
a 2/3 majority within each plenary group (GOVs and ORGs) and both groups
must vote the same way.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- For votes on
resolutions, if both groups do not
vote the same way or a 2/3 majority cannot be obtained within a group,
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>the resolution is
returned to the working group for amendment.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- For votes on
accreditations, if both groups do not vote the same way, or if a 2/3
majority cannot be obtained within a group, or if accreditation is refused, the
organization must wait one year before re-applying for
accrediation. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- For votes on the
creation of working groups, the working group is created only if both groups
vote for it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- For votes on working group leaders,
voting rounds last until both groups agree on each leader.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT
face=Arial>Accreditation</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Any organization can
apply for accreditation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Secratariat pre-screens
applications for accreditation and provides online plenary with his opinion on
validity of each application as a pre-evaluation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial> - Before each
new physical meeting, the plenary discusses and electronically votes
on accreditation of each new organization.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Loose accreditation
criteria are based on past or perceived future contribution to
governance debate.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Accreditation can be
revoked by a plenary vote on a resolution submitted by the
working group on procedural issues.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>Working group creation</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Proposals for working groups are
submitted to Chair/Secretariat by interested parties along with their
suggestions for co-leaders (one from GOVs and one from
ORGs).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- An open call for WG leader nominations is
issued by Secretariat.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Chair-Secretariat can veto creation of
ill-defined working groups (irrelevant to IGF mandate, unrealistic scope, scope
overlap with existing WGs).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Plenary votes on working group
creation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Plenary votes on WG
leaders.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Default working group</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- A working group on procedural issues
is created by default.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Its leaders are the Chair and the
Secretariat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- It is responsible to create votable
resolutions on:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> - changes to IGF
mechanism,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> - setting the
agenda,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> - outline of meeting
logistics,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> - software tools to be
used by IGF.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Chair</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Presides over meetings.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Reviews and approves proceedings
reports submitted by Secretariat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Secretariat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Prepares Proceedings report.<BR>-
Administers web site and public communications of IGF.<BR>- Handles logistics of
IGF online and physical meetings.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Receives nominations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Receives applications for
accreditation by orgs and proceeds to pre-evaluation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Receives applications for the
creation of working groups.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Chair-Secretariat
(together)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Can be brought in working groups as
facilitators.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Not allowed to participate in
working groups except as co-leader of default working group.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>- Can veto on creation of working groups prior to
Plenary vote.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Voilà,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>- Luc
Faubert</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=547310402-20012006><FONT face=Arial>ISOC
Québec</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>