Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-09 Thread Eliot Lear
On 12/8/15 1:06 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > they eat better food than we do Not in my considerable experience. I always thought that was part of the problem. Eliot signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:08 , Christopher Morrow >> wrote: >> also, it's international, and telephone, so really .. .they are super >> qualified to talk about internet governance stuff. > > Sarcasm, right? always with respect to the ITU, alwa

Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Randy Bush
> but the ITU is a larger conference over more time, so that's a plus, > right? also, it's international, and telephone, so really .. .they > are super qualified to talk about internet governance stuff. they eat better food than we do though i may endure san dogville for the sake of roberto's ca

Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Joly MacFie
The Internet Society has been very involved in this. Latest report is here: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/12/where-wsis-heading-post-2015 On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Steve Mikulasik wrote: > The UN's Internet Governance Forum is up for renewal at the end of 201

Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:08 , Christopher Morrow wrote: > > but the ITU is a larger conference over more time, so that's a plus, right? Not necessarily. The ITU is much less democratic and fails to incorporate a wide variety of stakeholders. The IGF isn’t a whole lot better in this regard, bu

Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Christopher Morrow
but the ITU is a larger conference over more time, so that's a plus, right? also, it's international, and telephone, so really .. .they are super qualified to talk about internet governance stuff. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > The IGF is certainly preferable to moving this

Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Owen DeLong
The IGF is certainly preferable to moving this role into the ITU. Owen > On Dec 7, 2015, at 07:37 , Steve Mikulasik wrote: > > The UN's Internet Governance Forum is up for renewal at the end of 2015, > without UN approval they will be shutdown. I am relatively new here and > haven't seen much

IGF Mandate Renewl

2015-12-07 Thread Steve Mikulasik
The UN's Internet Governance Forum is up for renewal at the end of 2015, without UN approval they will be shutdown. I am relatively new here and haven't seen much discussion about IGF and UN (attempted) involvement in the internet. How do people feel about the IGF and should it be renewed by the