[At-Large] Seeking roll back of the IGF Leadership Panel
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Thu Nov 25 21:36:56 UTC 2021
FWIW I think Evan's comment is very well stated and if you skipped it
deserves a read.
On November 25, 2021 at 05:15 at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org (Evan Leibovitch via At-Large) wrote:
> Disclaimer: I have been to a few regional IGFs but never the global one. I keep
> a relationship with the Internet Governance bubble and attempt to stay
> informed, but remain at arms length because of the general detachment of this
> bubble from society at large. These days I only get involved when something
> really egregious happens that directly affects the public interest, such as the
> PIR/EthosCapital fiasco. I will try to be as brief in my point as possible, but
> there are many premises behind these conclusions. And while I speak for myself,
> I have had many conversations with people I trust who have come to similar
> conclusions to mine but just don't dare to express it:
>
> To those outside the bubble, IGF only had one job, but it was an important one:
> Come up with one or more workable ideas for Internet Governance that suffer
> neither the industry capture of ICANN and ISOC nor the state capture of ITU. At
> this task, despite more than a decade offered, the IGF has only been notable in
> its preference of talk over action. So if the IGF in its current form can't
> execute the one thing it was trusted by the world to do, it is only to be
> expected that those who created it may lose patience and seek a different
> approach.
>
> As a result ... I applaud the UNSG's exhaustion with the IGF status quo. I am
> unsure whether his cure is worse than the disease, but there is a disease, make
> no mistake, one whose main symptom appears to be entropy. It's been nearly 20
> years since WSIS with no discernable public benefit yet.
>
> This letter asserts that the IGF's role is not to form consensus, which
> perfectly illustrates the entropy and justifies the UNSG action. It indicates
> that its participants prefer IGF to forever remain an elitist talk shop among
> self-appointed experts. That's all well and good for those inside that bubble
> who enjoy endless bickering as an end in itself, rather than seeking action
> that would actually improve society. But clearly the UNSG, correctly in my
> opinion, has determined that going forward "talk" needs to eventually turn to
> "do". The IGF either needs to (a) reform itself and its mandate into the
> more-difficult pursuit of outcomes, or (b) go off in a virtual corner to talk
> amongst yourselves till the end of time, finding another patron who will
> support that kind of thing, while putting the reform that the IG world
> desperately needs now in the hands of others ready to take on that role.
>
> At very least the letter is highly ignorable in rejecting the UNSG proposal
> without offering alternative reform. The status quo has expired. If you don't
> provide an evolutionary path then your patron will do it for you.
>
> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
> @evanleibovitch / @el56
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 10:15, parminder via At-Large <
> at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Please find enclosed a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General
> appealing to him to roll back the decision for an IGF Leadership Panel.
>
> The letter is co-signed by Dr Milton Mueller, on behalf of the Internet
> Governance Project, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public
> Policy, and Parmider Jeet Singh, for IT for Change, and the Just Net
> Coalition.
>
> It is cc-ed to representatives of civil society and technical community
> groups requesting them to refrain from sending nominations for the IGF
> Leadership Panel, and thus legitimizing it.
>
> The letter argues how the IGF Leadership Panel militates against the basic
> idea, objectives and structure of the IGF, and will weaken it.
>
> Best, parminder
>
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