Re: IGF Mandate Renewl

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

but the ITU is a larger conference over more time, so that's a plus, right?
also, it's international, and telephone, so really .. .they are super
qualified to talk about internet governance stuff.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> The IGF is certainly preferable to moving this role into the ITU.
>
> Owen
>
> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 07:37 , Steve Mikulasik <Steve.Mikulasik () civeo com> wrote:
> >
> > The UN's Internet Governance Forum is up for renewal at the end of 2015, without UN approval they will be shutdown. 
> > I am relatively new here and haven't seen much discussion about IGF and UN (attempted) involvement in the internet. 
> > How do people feel about the IGF and should it be renewed by the UN? I can't really figure out what gap they fill 
> > other than being big conference.
> >
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Governance_Forum#2015_mandate_renewal