[governance] Nomcom and conflict of interest

[Avri Doria]

On 26 May 2008, at 11:27, Raul Echeberria wrote:

> There are still many people that prefer to keep the classification  
> in 3 stakeholders group.


and it is those people who make the rules.  we don't get to decide how  
many stakeholder groups there are in things that derive from the WSIS  
decisions.  we can argue for change, but we alone do not make the rules.

the WSIS Tunis Agenda defined 3 groups plus 2 cross-cutting groups.   
so within this environment we seem to be stuck with 3 stakeholder  
groups and 2 cross-cutting groups.

btw, in another thread someone asked for a definition of the Internet  
technical Community.  in addition to what i have written abut it  
before i define it as:

those _organizations_ that focus on work, often  in a partially  
coordinated manner, intended to insure the technical integrity and  
technical development of the Internet.

the term can also be applied to those individuals, whether they come  
from government, business or civil society who devote their lives to  
the cause of Internet technical integrity and technical development  
and who work with or for these organizations.  yes, i see this as  
somewhat problematic and at the time of WSIS argued for a 4th house -  
the Internet Technical Community.  but as history shows, this was  
rejected and thus we, pragmatically, need to live with what we've got  
until  the ground rules change.

and I agree with Raul when he says:

> In that case we have o let anybody to decide to which group they  
> feel closer.
> Maybe some people in the so called "technical community" feel closer  
> from the business sector, and others, like me feels part of civil  
> society organizations space.


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