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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thanks, Constance. I can agree with a good deal of what you said.<div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><div dir="ltr" style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">While the NETmundial Initiative, whatever it is, and whatever it might not be is interesting as a topic to share information on, it is a yet to be determined 'thing'. there are many expressed concerns and while I have stated that I am optimistic about all initiatives, I made it clear that I have one priority. That is the strengthened and evolved IGF.</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><b style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></b></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><b style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Some</b> will gather in Geneva on 8/28. Whatever and whomever that is, it is a <b style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">grass tops </b>approach to something and I look forward to what it proposes to be and to do. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Where I can, if I am a part of an agenda, I will fit a dialogue about this proposed initiative into topics and agendas, to better understand. NOT to overtake. NOT to prevail. NOT to replicate. and NOT to compete. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Today, for me, I remain interested in learning, but I have standards that any initiative has to meet -- to support the IGF. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Here's a standard for certain key participants in the 8/28 'launch': </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Key organizations planning to participate on that 8/28 event should first examine their funding commitment to the IGF Trust Fund, and 1) cement it 2) increase it 3) make it a multi year commitment, <b style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">and announce it before they attend the 8/28 meeting in Geneva</b>. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">That goes for ICANN in particular<b style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">, </b>as well as others<b style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">: </b> Governments, and stakeholders who are attending the event on 8/28. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">In addition, as called for by civil society, the agenda and proposed SC members should be made public, and 1NET may be a good place to start, for informational purposes. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">All of us at the MAG, and in the larger IGF community want the IGF to evolve, and to contribute more significantly. Tunis gives us the mandate. We need the funding, and the commitment. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Each IGF is more significant in numbers and diversity than the year's before. We have not just Brazil as a host for 2015, but Mexico as host for 2016. We are already hearing from a few countries that they want to host in years ahead. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">National and regional IGF Initiatives are growing in impact, and in attendance. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">NOT all topics can be resolved at IGF, but outputs of IGF can then influence other fora. that is something we are still working on how to do. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">If the key supporters of the NETmundial Initiative are really committed to the IGF,then first and before anything else, they will step up their funding to the IGF Trust Fund. They will announce it before the 8/28 event. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">And, they will understand that talking about their initiative is only a small topic, will not seek to subsume the IGF agenda and will respect that as they also participate in the IGF 2014. It's a small ask, and one I am sure that they will respect. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">It is and should be, the IGF when we gather in Istanbul, and everyone should be thinking first and foremost about our contribution to the success of this IGF, and to its future. </div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">M</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div></div></div></div> </div></body>
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