AW: [governance] Reconstituting MAG

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

Here is another idea which could be taken into consideration discussing the future of MAG:
 
Among the key conceptual principles of CS are, inter alia, multistakeholder, bottom up PDP, end-to-end, openess and transparency. But, as said in previous mails, the meaning of these principles is not yet really understood and also vague developed (both from an practical and theoretical point of view). 
 
The present MAG approach follows more or less the traditional (hierarchical) "diplomatic architecture" with a "group" (representing various constitutencies and stakeholders) at the top. Why we shuld not change this architcture and organize the IGF (and its administation/management/planning etc.) in a way which is closer to the network architecture of the Net? 
 
In such a model MAG would be much mire a "coordinator" than a "decider" and MAG members would function like "root servers", answering queries and pointing to the right end address, the millions of Internet users (the sovereign of the cyberspace). We should not forget, the IGF was not created to have a new "playing ground" for diplomats and political activists but as a platform to serve first of all the 1st and 2nd (and hopefully soon the 3rd) billiion of Internet users helping them to manage the challenges and problems coming along when the Internet penetrates their daily lifes. 
 
And while you have to have (for technical reasons) a certain limit of root servers in the legacy root, you can have much more with the Anycast protocol. Insofar, it make sense practically to have a smaller MAG at the root level, but this does not mean, that you "exclude" others. Furthermore, national (regional) IGFs could be seen as "domains", playing a role like ccTLD and gTLD registries in the Internet Architecture. 
 
With other words, we conceptualize and understand MAG not as a centralized decision making body but as something like a database of all the variuos regional and national IGFs (like IANA), securing that the joint IGF-protocol is respected when individual, specific local policies and activities are developed.       
 
Wolfgang.
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