Hello all,<br><br>been offline for a week on the Swahili Coast, but am catching up and would like to weigh in on this one.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Drake</b> <
<a href="mailto:drake@hei.unige.ch">drake@hei.unige.ch</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;">
<div><span><font face="Book Antiqua">Hi
Luc,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Book Antiqua"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Book Antiqua">I don't see the
problem with respect to the chair's question. There are technical people
in each of the three societal sectors conventionally recognized in the UN and
beyond, </font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>Are there really? I saw very little evidence of this during the WSIS process. I think that there are not in actual fact very many at all. I saw 1 clueful rep from Gov't side, a few in CS, and a few from PS.
<br><br>I have been advocating all along that people who operate networks/set standards, etc., be more included if there is any chance of success of the IGF.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span><font face="Book Antiqua">and you don't have to create a new category catering to a
particular interest group in order to ensure that some technical
people get on a IGF boot-up team. </font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>Me thinks we do. How else will it happen? <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span><font face="Book Antiqua">There undoubtedly will be some, as
there has been in the past. Academics are in the non-profit sector,
aka CS, and they too have been included from the start. </font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>But very few academics with technical expertise.<br><br><br>It's clearly too late for us to include this as a MMWG submission, so I will submit smt on my own.
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>$ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net">whois.afrinic.net</a> mctim<br>