[governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)

[Adam Peake]

I agree with Bill.

I think we should simply be arguing CS has been under-represented for 
the past two years and we wish to see a fair rebalancing as new 
members of the MAG rotate in.

Adam



>Milton,
>
>FWIW I've always heard them referred to in IGF as TC, and of course it does
>reduce the number of seats for CS, as do other asymmetries.  It would
>certainly be appropriate for a statement to say that there's a very
>significant imbalance in stakeholder group representation in the current mAG
>with CS being conspicuously underrepresented relative to others, and that
>this should be corrected in the refresh.  Saying that gets across our
>immediate concern clearly without having to get into questioning who besides
>CS gets to be at the table in precisely what numbers and what they should be
>called.
>
>Cheers,
>
>BD
>
>
>On 2/20/08 11:10 AM, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>  From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at psg.com]
>>>
>>>  Can you point out to me where the IGF secretariat has perceived that
>>>  entities (word chosen to avoid the current discussion of whether they
>>>  are IOs or not) such as ICANN, RIR and IETF are CS?
>>
>>  Formal statements? Of course not, Secretariat bureaucrats are too
>>  careful for that. So I answer your question with another one: If the
>>  9-10 I* organizations are not counted as CS, what are they counted as?
>>  And where is it stated anywhere what they are counted as? And if they
>>  are considered a separate "technical community" then by definition
>>  giving them that status as a stakeholder group on a par with CS reduces
>>  the number of CS people on the MAG, does it not?
>
>
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