[governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wzb.eu
Wed Feb 20 10:07:17 EST 2008


I agree with both Bill and Adam. I explained why some days back.
We should really stop this discussion as it is clear for days that we 
won't reach consensus beyond the statement expressed below.
jeanette

Adam Peake wrote:
> 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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