[governance] the matter of MAG rotation 2010

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 17/01/2010, at 1:25 PM, Parminder wrote:

> But if the MAG will be preserved after Feb, by just extending the tenure of the present MAG I dont see what problem has been solved by this 'third way' or experiment. If the proposal is just to have real MAG+ meetings in May and June, why do we say we are repeating Sept 2009 experiment which was not a MAG plus meeting, but simply a planning meeting. To repeat, for it to be MAG or MAG plus meeting the MAG's authority to make substantive changes to the program document should be 'alive and existing' at the time of the meeting, and possible to be exercised. 

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> But how it often happens in furthering 'status quoist' politics is as follows: structural changes keep on getting proposed for more and more openness, till a structure is reached whereby it is then convenient to say, well, the structure is so open that it is impossible to take any decisions, which simply serves the status quo and status quoists.


Parminder has (as usual) voiced my concerns more eloquently than I earlier did.  Even while there has been a MAG meeting three times a year, important decisions have still been made without reference to it.  I worry that, as little authority as the MAG has been allowed as it is, the Secretariat is at least likely to let it out on a longer leash than the open consultation meeting.  In my personal (non-coordinator) view, management of the IGF is a case where some (accountable, transparent) hierarchical structure is needed.

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