On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Andrew A. Adams <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. Unfortunately the UN, better said, some member states, have been pushing for long time to get a much firm grip and "ownership" on Internet Governance related issues, by increasing the involvement of ITU or creating a similar organization under the UN umbrella to assume "control" of Internet governance, regulations, and administration of common resources. While there may be many positives and interesting experiences and engagement at the IGF preparatory, regional and general meetings, the truth is that on the general meetings many of the presentations/dialog during the main sessions are a parade of prepared statements without any chances of involvement for other organizations to reach common ground. UN is not a multistake holder friendly organization, and one of the key issues is "representativeness", which is also a big issue at ICANN where the model seems to show some signs of working but actually there are some that are more representative than others, we have a disparity of resources between groups to be able to participate in a fair and level plain field, and the final decision process by the "BoD Junta". The CSTD decision is worse than not letting other stakeholders be part of the WG, only 20 members states will be in the group, 3 for each ECOSOC region plus the five countries that hosted IGF meetings. It will be interesting to see how each region selects their representatives given that afaik their are planning to have the first meeting next week. And yes, ICANN, together with ISOC and other organizations already signed the letter/petition. Regards Jorge