FWD: The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[Andrew A. Adams]

This is very worrying. I would expect the whole of NCSG to support signing up
to the ISOC letter. Also, this is probably worth raising with the ICANN staff
and Board, I would think.

AAA.

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From: isoc-members-announce-bounces at elists.isoc.org
On Behalf Of Jon McNerney
Sent: 10 December 2010 11:25
To: isoc-members-announce at elists.isoc.org
Subject: [ISOC] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

Dear Colleagues,

In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December the United Nation's
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) decided to
create a Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance
Forum (IGF) (http://www.intgovforum.org/) with a membership made up
only of governments.

We believe this decision sets back the model of multistakeholder
cooperation under which the IGF was established, and contradicts the
instructions given to the CSTD for the establishment of the Working
Group

The Internet Society has joined the International Chamber of Commerce
- - Business Action to Support the Information Society, the Internet
Governance Caucus, and many other Internet, business, and civil
society organizations in sending a letter to the CSTD, asking them to
retract their previous decision and to establish an appropriately
constituted Working Group that ensures the full and active
participation of governments, the private sector and civil society
from both developing and developed countries, involving relevant
intergovernmental and international organizations and forums.

Like the Internet, a multistakeholder approach has been at the core of
the Internet Governance Forum's formation and success. We hope that
Internet Society Chapters and Members, as well as other organizations,
will join us in signing the letter.

You may read the full letter, and see the growing list of signatories,
and indicated your own support here:

http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2710


Sincerely,

Jon McNerney
Chief Operating Officer
Internet Society
www.isoc.org


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