uh, and in the last post i forgot the least german stuff: how come that in the german foreign office, during coffee breaks, they serve the original danish pastries?

let's try to turn this thing into something vaguely useful :)

in the last part of the morning we had a brief meeting with ambassador karklins, during which some information on the future of the wsis process was provided. i am not a good note-taker, but here are some quick highlights.

prepcom2, in february, is going to work on negotiations on all aspects (mainly financing, i'd say) except internet governance, about which there will only be a preliminary wgig report. prepcom3, which is going to happen in geneva either between end august and first week of september or after september 19, will finalize all documents and negotiate on internet governance.

there will be a preliminary document published on january 3, and discussed in a meeting on january 10 (in the friends of the chair meeting) to which civil society is invited.

there is no clarity about possible funding for civil society participants to prepcoms and/or tunis summit. karklins will come back to us on that.

the result of the tunis phase will either be two documents, one political and one operational, or a single one containing them both. there was some discussion about the draft "political chapeau" being a chapeau only for the tunis phase, or for the whole set of tunis+geneva documents - and, more generally speaking, on whether the tunis phase is supposed to deal only with the implementation of the geneva documents, or also on new political agreements. this is unclear at the moment.

my general impression is that karklins is a nice and open person, but that governments still aren't very up to speed with the wsis-2 process, so nobody really knows what is going to happen once they start getting into real play.