So, as I understand things, we want to convince the governments of the world to enter into a new treaty where there does not seem to be a huge amount of current interest. But not a regular treaty, but one in which governments sign onto it, but cede much of their power to civil society, academics, the technical community and business. Oh yes, and End Users, a rather undefined term in their context.

I'm really good at putting large efforts into difficult projects, because there is merit in their success, but this one sounds just a bit (ok, a lot) too "iffy" for my comfort.

Alan

At 09/04/2016 04:18 PM, Maureen Hilyard wrote:
Olivier,

I got from Thomas's email that he proposes that we go outside of current norms and create a multistakeholder treaty model that incorporates all our stakeholder groups. Of course it doesn't exist now but we are in a transition phase so perhaps its timely.

Maureen

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> wrote:
Dear Thomas,

On 09/04/2016 20:51, Thomas Lowenhaupt wrote:
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't Parminder's thought
> bottom-up, and in-line with the multi-stakeholder concept? (And I see
> some merit in his concerns about gTLD governance.)

The Treaty Model which Parminder argues for requires signature from UN
Member States.
http://www.un.org/en/member-states/

Where is Civil Society?
Where are End Users?
Where are the Technical & Academic Communities?
Where is the Private Sector?

Kindest regards,

Olivier
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