[IRP] RESPONSE REQUIRED: Revising the Charter

Wed Oct 13 19:38:44 EEST 2010

Hi Lisa

i belive option 1 is most practicable and will deliver what we need.

Thanks
Max

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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Lisa Horner <LisaH at global-partners.co.uk>wrote:

>  Hi all
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> Thanks for all of the comments so far about our immediate revisions of the
> Charter.  From these comments two things have emerged as needing immediate
> attention.  First of all, I will try to clarify what the ?Punchy Working
> Group? is and what they are doing. Secondly, we need to decide how much work
> we want to do to the Charter before we use it in external consultations. I
> have outlined two possibilities at the bottom of the email.  Please could
> everyone say which option they prefer by this SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER.
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> a) The Punchy Working Group
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> The group formed in Vilnius after our internal meeting in the canteen.  It
> is informally being led by Brett, and includes Dixie, Shaila, Henrik, Karmen
> and Carlos.  The group is working to draft a flyer/short document to use as
> an advocacy and campaigning tool. This is a separate document to the main
> Charter.  People wanted to work on it as they feel they need an advocacy and
> mobilising tool right now, rather than having to wait for the longer Charter
> process.  They also wanted something that was shorter and more accessible
> than the longer, more academic and comprehensive Charter.
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> The individual members of the group have brainstormed a list of key
> principles that they think embody the essence and spirit of the Charter.
> They are now working to refine this list, and are due to send a draft to the
> coalition in the coming weeks.  We can then discuss and edit together.   The
> idea is to produce something like the Brazilian principles.  Once we?ve all
> agreed on a version, the plan is for a designer to make it look good, and
> then it will be ready for people to use in their advocacy work.
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> The proposed ?Punchy? advocacy document will be sent to the mailing list in
> the next couple of weeks and we will have an in-depth discussion about this
> document then.
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> b) The Charter
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> At Vilnius it was agreed that some work needs to be done to the main
> Charter before the external consultation.  However since then there have
> been some differences in opinion about how much work the Charter needs.
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> Our original plan (which I sent around last week) would give us about two
> weeks from now to rectify any mistakes in the Charter and, refine some of
> the language and build in Tapani?s new and improved preamble.  Dixie would
> undertake this work, based on comments so far, and would send a revised
> version round for comments.
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> However, there is a feeling among some of us that more work is needed to go
> through the whole Charter together to make it more concise, clear and
> inspiring. I would like to stress that this would not be an attempt to
> rewrite the Charter. We already have a very good Charter! The aim would be
> to work with what we already have; the substantive content would not change
> (except for where there are mistakes) but what content we already have would
> be made more streamlined and consistent.
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> So let?s make a final decision now. I have put the two options we have
> below (we can refine the details once we?ve broadly agreed on one or the
> other).  PLEASE SAY WHETHER YOU WOULD PREFER OPTION 1 OR 2 BY SUNDAY 17TH
> OCT  ? we will go with the majority on this.  Either are possible and can
> work.  But please take into consideration whether you personally will have
> time to participate in the process and can commit to it.
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> Please respond...we can?t decide how to go forwards with this if you don?t!
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> Thanks and all the best,
>
> Lisa
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> The options:
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> 1) The original proposed plan
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> Main Charter:
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> Coalition members submit comments to Dixie about serious concerns that you
> think need to be addressed in the text.
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> Dixie revises text and sends to coalition for comments.
>
> Discussion, and final text produced. (original deadline we set was 31
> October).
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> External consultation begins in November, and internal discussion within
> the coalition runs in parallel.
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> Final version 2.0 produced in time for IGF 2011.
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> Punchy flyer:
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> Punchy group drafts separate flyer for coalition to review.
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> 2) Alternative plan
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> Main Charter:
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> Dixie revises text according to comments already received since Vilnius.
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> Coalition reviews the Charter in depth.  This is likely to take the form of
> discussing one section per week on the list, seeing where the text can be
> made more inspiring.  We could organise a conference call at the end of each
> week to agree final language.
>
> We produce version 1.1 by end of December, and begin external consultation
> in January 2011.
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> Final version 2.0 produced in time for IGF 2011.
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> Punchy flyer
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> Work continues to produce separate document as before.
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> Note: With either option, we will still be sticking to our original
> objectives of ?applying? existing rights standards to the Internet.  This
> means that we have to be careful with our language and to make sure that we
> don?t contradict or undermine rights standards.  We?ve made progress with
> the work of the expert group, and don?t want to go backwards.  As has
> already been pointed out, we?re not trying to produce a consensus document,
> but rather to apply existing rights standards to the Internet.  If we can?t
> agree on language, we will have to agree to compromise and/or discuss
> further during the external consultation.
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