<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div><br></div><div>All discussions spilling across multiple listservs these days…</div><div><br></div><div>What I just said on the Best Bits list was</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:22 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">I’ve been swamped with other things and have lost track, so a nomenclature question—is this “steering committee” framing locked in? In BA we talked about it being a “coordination group,” which sounds a bit less Politburo.</span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Either way, I would argue against having members of the group responsible for filling other groups able to in effect appoint themselves. </div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">So I’ve raised it.</div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Cheers</div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Bill</div>
<br><div><div>On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG">robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There hasn't been any discussion about precluding someone from participating in one committee if they are also participating in another committee. So there has been no agreement to make a rule of ineligibility based on that. If someone wants to raise it, we can address it, but it hasn't been suggested as of yet. I would think there will be a desire to want to spread the workload among more participants and not double-up committee members too often, but no rule against it, instead leaving it up to a case by case situation.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Joana Varon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Do you know if those in 1net steering committee will not be eligible for any of the seats at the Brazilian committees? My name is being mentioned for 1net steering within BB folks, but I'm trying to figure out where I would be more useful for our stakeholder group. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thank you, Joana. Those of us on the civil society coalition steering committee thought it would be best if we would not be eligible for any of the committee seats ourselves, so as to avoid messy conflicts of both seeking a seat while also serving on the committee making the decision about the seats. Since I said I would represent NCSG in the coalition, I won't be eligible for any of the committee seats myself. BUT I will work hard to get the best people into those seats who will represent civil society well and especially NCSG in these important policy inputs.<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Robin<div><div class="h5"><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Joana Varon wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear Robin, are you eligible as well? It would be great if you were. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Friends,<br>
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We've been told by Adiel that each of the following stakeholders will receive 5 spots on the 1Net Steering Committee: business, civil society, academia, technical. Therefore the coalition of civil society networks (NCSG, APC, Diplo, IGC, Best Bits) is working to nominate 5 representatives for civil society to the 1Net Steering Committee. We are using the same committee and process that we used to nominate the 2 civil society representatives to the High Level Panel on IG last week.<br>
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Therefore, we are now accepting nominations for civil society representatives to the 1Net Steering Committee until Monday 9 December 23:59 UTC. You can nominate someone else or yourself by posting the nomination to this list before then. Before you nominate another please be sure that your nominee has already agreed to serve on the 1Net Steering Committee if she/he is selected by the larger coalition as one of the five civil society representatives.<br>
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Also bear in mind that we will be similarly impaneling the civil society representatives to the Brazil meeting organizing committees in the coming weeks also, but the 1Net Steering Committee's establishment has a tighter deadline so we are dealing with it first.<br>
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Of course it would helpful to know just what 1Net has been set up to do and what is the scope of its work before agreeing to serve on its steering committee, but those things haven't been set yet - its largely a chicken and egg paradox. Therefore, those people who are most interested in shaping the form and direction of 1Net should consider serving on its initial steering committee.<br>
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Thank you!<br>
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