<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Joly </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thank you for the transcripts. They correspond to what I remember.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">It doesn't matter who said what when, or even if the PIR was a breach of multi-stakeholderism in the exceptional case of a $billion offer. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">What matters is how ISOC will be run going forward. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Gonzalo made several comments that <i>I interpreted </i>implied we were not multistakeholder, in this and other contexts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Reading some more, I discovered he also said, "what we have is a strong multistakeholder system"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I said that if I had it wrong, "I will be very glad and will apologize." </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I sent a note immediately to him, and I apologize, publicly, for missing his other comment. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">I had written here a bit about the other things he said, to explain what I saw as a contradiction. But that doesn't matter, only what we do from now on. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">I am glad we all agree that multi-stakeholder is our principle and goal, whatever we may argue in the court.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">---------------------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Once we agree to that, we have to define multistakeholder and work together to make it so. Andrew, Kathy, Sally, and almost everyone else has spoken, sometimes eloquently, about how important multi-stakeholder is in Internet Governance. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Fortunately, ISOC itself has given us guidance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2016/internet-governance-why-the-multistakeholder-approach-works/">https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2016/internet-governance-why-the-multistakeholder-approach-works/</a>  <br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><span style="font-weight:600;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit">Multistakeholder processes</span> with meaningful and accountable participation, and roles and responsibilities of stakeholders flexible to the issue at hand</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><span style="font-weight:600;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit">Open, participative</span>, with consensus-driven decision-making where possible</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><span style="font-weight:600;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit">Transparent, accountable, inclusive and equitable</span> with bottom-up decision-making that doesn’t disadvantage any category of stakeholder</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><span style="font-weight:600;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit">Distributed and collaborative</span>, a decentralized and multistakeholder ecosystem that encourages collaborative and cooperative approaches</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><span style="font-weight:600;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;letter-spacing:0px;font-family:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit">Enabling meaningful participation</span> where anyone affected by an issue can take part in decision-making, with capacity-building support if needed</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/news/speeches/2018/a-call-to-action-get-involved-with-multistakeholder-internet-policy-efforts/">https://www.internetsociety.org/news/speeches/2018/a-call-to-action-get-involved-with-multistakeholder-internet-policy-efforts/</a>  <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3">One, it must be stakeholder driven in that stakeholders determine the process, scope and direction of work.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3">Two, it must be open and inclusive, both in terms of allowing broad participation and ensuring that all issues are addressed.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3">Three, the process must be transparent and accountable to all stakeholders and the public.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3">Four, outcomes must be consensus-based, delivering positive value to the greatest number of stakeholders.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Feasibility-Study-Final-Report-Oct-2017.pdf">https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Feasibility-Study-Final-Report-Oct-2017.pdf</a>  </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3">Stakeholder-driven: Stakeholders determine the process and decisions, from agenda
setting to workflow, rather than simply fulfilling an advisory role;
• Open: Any stakeholder may participate and the process includes and integrates the
viewpoints of a diverse range of stakeholders;
• Transparent: All stakeholders and the public have access to deliberations, creating an
environment of trust, legitimacy, and accountability; and
• Consensus-based: Outcomes are consensus-based, arrived at by compromise, and are a
win-win for the greatest number or diversity of stakeholders.  <br></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Hind,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,28,44);line-height:1.3">There is a great deal more to say about what is multi-stakeholder and how we implement it for ISOC. But it's 4 a.m. and I'm calling it a night.<br></p></div>
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