[governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)

[Parminder]

> 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.

So, Bill, going by what Milton says, it is not only a member or two
insisting Internet organizations are CS, these bodies themselves, and even
more problematically the IGF secretariat itself confounds these two
categories. This makes the issue of discussing and sorting this point out
more than 'a total distraction from the main point'.

And Milton, I am agreeable to asking for a small MAG equally divided among
gov, CS and business sector. But I am not sure some others here are. 

Parminder 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at syr.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:20 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: RE: [governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)
> 
> 
> > -----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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