[Chapter-delegates] Report from ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, week 1

[Zaid Ali]

On 10/13/10 9:33 AM, "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com> wrote:

> For everyone - Bill Graham... *can not *take the floor (sic!), unless some
> government asks the chair of a concrete meeting to allow Bill to speak. This
> is how ITU works. Sector members can stay in the room, but can't speak.
> Perhaps another example why the WSIS and the IGF are more open and
> transparent ;)

I think this is why the ITU doesn't work well, why should we feed into it?
The Internet has no kings which is why it works well today, ITU needs to
fundamentally shift its philosophy if it wants to make serious contributions
in Internet governance. I support Bill representing ISOC and participating
but to involve chapter representative is really a waste of time.

Zaid (choosing not to conform)