[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations

[Winthrop Yu]

   These Notes from Cvil Society seem to align well with ISOC's own position
http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/toward-collaborative-internet-development but 
are a bit more detailed/explicit.  FYI ...


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Anne Jellema <anne at webfoundation.org>
Date: October 21, 2014 at 4:38:08 AM GMT+8
To: <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject: Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint 
recommendations*
Reply-To: Anne Jellema <anne at webfoundation.org>
>
> Dear colleagues
>
> As you know, a fluid working group was formed after the IGF to try to come up
> with joint recommendations for the ITU Plenipot. We produced the open letter
> on transparency and participation in the Plenipot process itself, which many
> of you signed (thank you!). Our second and harder task was to develop
> positions on some of the most important substantive issues before the
> conference. The output of this second phase of our work is a 7 page lobby
> document that is now available for endorsement for the next 24 hours at:
>
> http://bestbits.net/itu-plenipot-notes
>
> The fluid working group struggled to obtain the conference proposals on which
> to base our analysis and recommendations, both because of the ITU's
> restrictions on document access and because many Member States submitted their
> proposals quite late in the day. As a result, our drafting process has taken
> us hard up against the start of the Plenipot itself.
>
> It is now very urgent to get this text in front of delegations, so we are
> opening it for endorsements rather than comment. If however someone has a red
> flag, "absolutely can't live with it" issue that prevents them from signing
> on, they should email me personally in the next 24 hours to propose an edit(s)
> to resolve this issue, and I will consult the other members of the ITU fluid
> working group on whether to accept this edit.
>
> Due to the lack of time for comment and consensus, we are not presenting these
> recommendations in the name of Best Bits or on behalf of civil society in
> general but only on behalf of the specific organisations endorsing.
>
> If you would like your organisation to be listed, please send your logo to
> Carolina Rossini (crossini at publicknowledge.org
> <mailto:crossini at publicknowledge.org>) by 22:30 CET (16:30 EST) tomorrow, 21 Oct.
>
> Best wishes
> Anne
>
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