[governance] The 4 different discussions regarding the MAG

[Roland Perry]

In message <4B552122.1040102 at itforchange.net>, at 08:34:02 on Tue, 19 
Jan 2010, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes

>>> When I was selected to into the MAG, I was notified that there would
>>> be two MAG meetings for the task that MAG carries out but the program
>>> for the IGF2009 Sharam was locked down in the very first meeting
>>> allowing no modification to the program and none of the following
>>> meetings in the form of Open Consultation/Public Meeting helped the
>>> locked down program.
>>
>> So there's no opportunity for further confusion,

>With due respect I may suggest that IGF itslef is a lot of confusion, 
>and if avoiding confusion is our main objective we could, well, even do 
>without the whole thing.

What would help reduce the inevitable confusion surrounding any large 
process, is clarity regarding the facts. I make no apology for wanting 
to know the simplest of facts!

There is a big difference between an assertion that the 2009 IGF 
meeting's agenda was "locked down" in February (the first meeting of the 
MAG that year) or in May (the first meeting with a rotated MAG).

>In fact as part of the present proposal to do away with MAG meetings, 
>it did get stated that Feb meeting has a more political task of framing 
>an agenda, and the other two meetings are more programmatic.

This year is also different because the Vilnius meeting is in September, 
two months earlier than the Sharm meeting.

Or to put it more bluntly, with the traditional gap in (all kinds of) 
activity during July and August, if the May MAG meeting doesn't decide 
"everything", then the June meeting (whatever form it takes) will not be 
able to finalise the workshop timetable or the speaker list.

If we have to wait until after a MAG meeting on June 30th to fully 
understand what it is we (in the outside world) are preparing for, it's 
too late. Even waiting until 12th May is bad enough, as diaries are 
already full of big meetings between then and the end of June.
-- 
Roland Perry
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