[governance] MAG mandate extended, call for new members:

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Funnily enough, Microsoft is actually involved in a wide variety of
initiatives, several of them genuinely multistakeholder and not merely
engaged in promoting microsoft's own interests.

>  To take a non-CS example, the new conditions mean that we just cant
> have a microsoft or an intel person in the private sector part of the MAG,
the
> person should be able to demonstrate sufficient linkages to business
> sector in general, and, an even more difficult condition, be willing to
> communicate effectively with a good swathe of business persons/ entities/
interests.


> strongly, for the first time the phrase 'MAG members serve in personal
> capacity' has a clear qualifier 'but' balancing it with certain amount
> of representativeness. We all know, at least I have argued often, that no

It is in plain enough English. There's a big difference between serving as a
liaison / link to various civil societies, and being responsible and
accountable to them.

Your logic is specious.. and there are quite a few of the classical logical
fallacies in your argument here, below.

> represenativeness, in any system, is ever absolute, as is personal
> capacity never absolute. Which makes the reverse of this true, that there
is
> some degree of representiveness in MAG members as there is some amount of

How?

> I know it should be obvious, but there are times
> when the 'personal capacity' argument has been taken too far.

You keep repeating the opposite though. And your long, long emails
attempting to justify the logic behind your conclusions don't help bring the
argument to an end either.

Repeating the same thing again and again doesn't make it true, Parminder.
Really.

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