[governance] Some thoughts regarding the selection of the next MAG Chair (possible criteria)

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<AANLkTin2kzeah+k0T941bc3zf9sp-YzG4yeEaTOHjHW8 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
23:11:31 on Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Bertrand de La Chapelle 
<bdelachapelle at gmail.com> writes

>As we are preparing for the February IGF consultations and the first 
>(unfortunately closed) meeting of the WGIIGF (or WOGII : WOrking Group 
>on Improvements to the Igf), there is one element that deserves some 
>attention: the future selection of the future MAG Chair.
>
>In order to launch the discussion on this list, I have listed below 
>some possible criteria that could be taken into account and used as 
>input by CS participants in the WOGII. They are largely based on the 
>reasons why Nitin Desai has been exemplary in this role and they 
>constitute a useful benchmark for any successor, albeit a difficult one 
>to match.

If we are looking for someone who has been a long time WSIS participant, 
a MAG member, and is no longer involved with one of the stakeholders, 
that narrows things a great deal. We would soon be talking about a small 
number of identifiable individuals.

Are you also talking about a chair *to* the MAG (more on the secretariat 
side of the fence, appointed by the UN) rather than a chair *of* the 
MAG, who is chosen from the current MAG membership as their most 
suitable leader.

The former model is common in a corporate setting (where a Chair of the 
Board is often chosen quite independently of them previously being one 
of the regular Directors of the company); versus the ICANN Supporting 
Organisations and GAC model where the chairs come from the defacto 
shortlist of the incumbent members.

Which reminds me - what's the current view on MAG membership/rotation?

Because of the uncertainty last year there wasn't a rotation, and the 
rotation in 2008 was very restricted as far as I can tell. We now have 
members who have served as follows:

16  - five years
19  - four years
  1  - three years
20  - two years

-- 
Roland Perry
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