[governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> a total distraction from the main point, which should be to simply say
> that CS is underrepresented on the mAG.  It also amounts, or may be 
> perceived to amount, to picking an unnecessary fight with a
substantial 
> range of actors with whom we should be trying to build bridges rather 
> than fetishizing differences.

Agree that there is no need to pick fights, but this whole
quota/category approach to the MAG makes it inevitable. The problem is
that the Internet administration organizations' insistence that they are
CS, or their perception as such by the IGF Secretariat, is partly
responsible for reducing the size of the CS element on the MAG. 

Anyway, this whole "representation" argument is clearly a rathole.
Someone can always come up with a new "category of actor" (see what Rony
Koven just did, "the media" is yet another one). We should simply ask
for a smaller MAG that is evenly divided between CS, Business and
government. Anything else is a waste of time. 

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