[governance] Reconstituting MAG

[Carlos Afonso]

I am one of the ones who said I feel it won't happen, but added that if 
there is any reduction, it will not be on the governments' side. This is 
UN, an intergovernmental body. They would prefer to enlarge it to 
accommodate our plea of more representation (if we had the leverage...) 
rather than think of a reduction.

--c.a.

Milton L Mueller wrote:
> I do support calling for reduction in the number. I do not recall any
> real "opposition" to it, just people who think that it won't happen. We
> certainly cannot claim that there is consensus on the number 40, since
> the preponderance of opinion as far as I can see is against that large a
> number. 
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> I also support those who warned you against getting involved in specific
> numbers games and proportional quotas. It is enough to say that CS is
> underrepresented.  
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> From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net] 
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> Milton, Meryem, McKnight and others who have reservation on the number
> 40 - do you want the sentence 'We think that 40 is a good number for MAG
> members' struck off. I  am unable to specifically call for reducing the
> number since there seems to be considerable opposition to this.
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> Some members seemed in favor of putting some mathematics in the
> statement to make a clear case for increased number for CS.  For this
> reason I do have to go by the present number 40, in this part of the
> statement. Meryem, you wanted me not to quote the number that can be
> reserved for the International Internet orgs reps - but I have gone by
> the number 6 which a few of us quoted, because that allows me to
> complete the calculations for the asked for CS numbers. In any case this
> number is clearly against a total of 40, so there can be no confusion
> about how this number may be interpreted.
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