Hi, as the new co-coordinator of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC), and the long time member of AtLarge community, I urge you to pay attention, sign the petition, in whichever capacity you like to. We made our own statement on his and sent to CSTD. Please see here: http://www.igcaucus.org/statements Yes, the CSTD meeting was arranged in a very extraordinary way, though the Chair maintained thate there was "clear majority" when they made that bad decision. There were about 18 members of CSTD, out of 43. Only USA made the reservation, but others followed. Well, almost all of these guys were the permanent mission reps stationed in Geneva, have little clue on Internet Governance, less on WSIS, and didn't understand the consequence of the decision. On Friday, Dec 17, there will be this CSTD WG open consultation meeting, and I will join there. It will be great, still, if ICANN AtLarge community, or ALAC express or join the protest. Essentially, end-users interests will or should not be represented by government folks, and that is exactly what this decision may lead to. izumi 2010/12/11 Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com>:
Dear Yjro,
Feels good to know that the rest of the world will not allow this threatening situation to prevail.
:)
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro@hotmail.com
wrote:
Dear Siva, That's exactly what I expect to happen Best, Yrjö
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:59:08 +0530 From: isolatedn@gmail.com To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] [Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro@hotmail.com>wrote:
All,
There are governments that like and defend the multistakeholder
approach
and those who rather would do without it. As far as I understand, the outcome of CSTD meeting resulted from a temporary majority of the latter.