[governance] IGC nominees for MAG

[Vittorio Bertola]

Adam Peake ha scritto:
>> I think we should follow some basic guidelines:
>>
>> 1. Rotation would be for 1/3 of the MAG (I guess this means the whole 
>> MAG and not only the 50% non-gov people).
> 
> 
> "Rotating up to 1/3 of the members within each stakeholder group each 
> year was seen as the appropriate way forward."  and "50% of its members 
> proposed by governments and 50% by other stakeholder groups, would be 
> maintained.

So, who gets to pick which members of the MAG are confirmed and which 
ones are subject to reconfirming? What happens if you have to rotate one 
third of the group but almost everyone in the group wants to continue? 
I've seen a commitment to rotate "up to one third" (which might mean no 
rotation at all) but I've not seen commitments to rotate "at least X%".

Frankly, I would think that rotating less than one third would be a 
joke. There was no rotation last year, so if you have ascertained that 
the right proportion of rotation is one third per year (which is already 
pretty low), one would expect that this year two thirds of the group 
would be rotated. Generally speaking, a group deciding for itself which 
and how many of its members need to be changed at the term's end, and 
deciding for very low values, does not look very good.

Please don't be offended - I know that everyone's intentions are good, 
that establishing proper procedures in this informal environment is 
hard, that there is the need to cope with balancing constraints etc. - 
but the accountability and transparency of the MAG is still low, more 
than that of the governing bodies of other global Internet governance 
institutions. This is somewhat normal for such a young organization, but 
perhaps some stronger show of will and bolder effort could be done: from 
the outside, it really looks like the MAG is reluctant to change and 
plans to replace as few members as possible, and this is not encouraging 
for the credibility of the IGF.
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