[governance] Reconstituting MAG

[Meryem Marzouki]

Lee,

Le 18 févr. 08 à 20:37, Lee McKnight a écrit :

> Meryem,
>
> I agree they're different. I'm just saying whatever their true  
> nature and purpose, for recognition at the global level they have  
> to at least claim they're serving general and not particular  
> interests.

As you may have noticed, I'm not entering this debate: some of them  
serve the general interest, other serve particular interest. That  
could also be claimed about some CS org, after all, or even to some  
governments. Thus, the point is not to qualify each of them, saying  
that this tech org rather serve general interest while that one is  
serving some private interest.

They just need to be there, but not as a stakeholder (with equal  
repartition of seats as we're asking for), but as organizations ad  
hoc to the field. I've already said this, but let me repeat that if  
we were discussing a global governance forum on say, environment,  
then we would find again gov, biz, cs + environment-related ad hoc org.

> So they don't count against the CS quota

They do, currently

> but hopefully are often on the same side.

Again, that's not the point I'm afraid.

> You see where I'm going with MAG 2.0: intl orgs + CS = 50%  
> (roughly); biz + govts = 50%.

:) or is it :( ?!

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