[governance] IGC nominees for MAG

[Vittorio Bertola]

Milton L Mueller ha scritto:
> You can tell from the above that I do not agree with Adam's position
> below:
> 
> Adam Peake:
>> The five members of the MAG the caucus nomcom 
>> recommended in 2006 be included on any list of 
>> candidates with a note to say the caucus would 
>> support their continued membership of the MAG 
>> should the SG find they continue to enhance the 
>> balance of the group. The five (unless anyone 
>> drops out) are included in any candidate list. 
> 
> Indeed, I find it difficult to think of any justification for this rule.
> As I said, this list is nothing more than advice on who to throw out and
> who could be added. So creating a rule that forces us to support all
> current members eliminates half of our our ability to give advice. It
> also completely eviscerates any pressure we are able to place on
> existing MAG members who allegedly represent us. This is absurd. 

Actually, I think that this "double track" would end up this way: you 
have a big and interesting discussion from the bottom about who could do 
this job well, then you put a lot of effort in coming to consensus on a 
couple of names, but then you discover that these two names are just to 
be added on a slate of five others that were already preselected from 
the top, and did not have to go through any kind of public scrutiny.

Where did I already see this model? I think it was in ICANN's At Large 
elections in 2000, and at that time I'm quite sure that some of the 
people who now advocate this idea were challenging it on the basis of 
its top-down nature :)

My feeling is that many, possibly most, of the current MAG members 
should and will be confirmed anyway, whatever process we pick. So why 
pick one that will leave to any loser the sense of not having been 
playing on a level field? How helpful can that be to the future 
credibility of the MAG and of the IGF in general?

Anyway, I volunteer for the Nomcom.

Ciao,
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