Luc<br>This sounds very workable. I would support this - only question is about the mandate - the Govts particularly may be uncomfortable with the random long/short mandate idea.(Choina be there for 2 years and US only for 1...)
<br>Sorry I can't help more, but I'm into >24 work days for the next 4 days... Wolfgang is Chairing alone until then.<br>Jacqueline<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luc Faubert
</b> <<a href="mailto:LFaubert@conceptum.ca">LFaubert@conceptum.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">1.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Let's name the "thing" : IGF
Committee.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">2. Composition</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">5 regions x 1 rep from 4 groups (Gov, Biz,
PS and T&A) = 20 members.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Chosen by each group's constituants for 2
year term.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Term of a randomly selected half of
the first Committee has a 1 year mandate, other half a 2 year mandate. [In
order to ensure continuity in the transition.]</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">3. Mandate</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Determine structure of physical
meetings.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Approve proposals for the creation of
thematic work groups.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">[Let's try to keep the Committee's mandate
to the strict minimum and have most of the work accomplished by the WGs/Plenary
combination.]</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Note that this answers only Desai's first
question regarding the "program committee."</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Second question was about priority of
themes to be discussed in Athens. Will we submit a prioritized list of themes
?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">- Luc Faubert</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">ISOC Québec</font></div>
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