[governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Hit send too soon, very early in the morning in SFO

However, it is essential to ensure broader and more inclusive CS
participation while at the same time ensuring adequate participation from
the technical community.

On the other hand, I'm quibbling here. Ian's wording below is much more
preferable to previous variants I have seen. I withdraw my objection.

	suresh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meryem Marzouki [mailto:marzouki at ras.eu.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:40 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Reconstituting MAG (Tech/admin language)
> 
> 
> Le 20 févr. 08 à 15:24, Suresh Ramasubramanian a écrit :
> 
> >> However, their
> >> representation should not be at the expense of broader civil society
> >> participation.
> >
> > However, it is essential to ensure broader and more inclusive civil
> > society
> > participation
> >
> > That wording ok?
> 
> No, Suresh. It's not OK. You're supposed to understand English better
> than I do, but let me explain to you what's wrong with this:
> 
> Ian's sentence ("However, their representation should not be at the
> expense of broader civil society participation") was agreed as a
> replacement to previous sentence ("However, their current over-
> representation should be corrected"). Both sentences were proposed at
> the end of the following paragraph: "We also agree that International
> organizations having an important role in the development of Internet-
> related technical standards and relevant policies should continue to
> be represented in the MAG. <last sentence>."
> 
> Even with limited English language skills, anyone would understand
> that "their" refers to the " International organizations having an
> important role in the development of Internet-related technical
> standards and relevant policies", in other words, the so-called
> "technical community". So we're talking about them in this paragraph,
> sot talking about CS participation.
> 
> So why trying to entirely change the sense and the coherence of the
> whole paragraph, with a replacement proposal that is, on top of all
> this, nothing but a weaker repetition of the first two paragraphs of
> the statement? Are we kidding here?
> 
> 
> 
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