Aedrew puts the finger into the right direction. There is a thread that ICANN pays lip service to the MSM but in reality overrides it with a day-to-day policy which ignores vboth a bottom up PDP as well as the positions of CS stakeholder groups. Another point is the HR dimension, however we should do this in a way which would ask qustions to ICANN and notm primarily to the local host. wolfgang ________________________________ Fra: NCSG-Discuss på vegne af Andrew A. Adams Sendt: on 20-02-2013 02:06 Til: [log in to unmask] Emne: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Please suggest proposed topics for discussion at Beijing ICANN meeting in April Robin, Perhaps not focussed enough, but for the ICANN Public Forum, I think a broad discussion of the multi-stateholder model and threats to its dominance as the primary means of Internet Governance (e.g. the GAC expecting the ICANN Board to override bottom-up policy development and follow its "advice" instead; the ITU's attempted land-grab for authority over the Internet; Staff tendency to try to make policy on-the-hoof instead of following PDPs) would seem to be an important topic to raise, not just the policy v implementation specific debate. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/