[governance] Preliminary List of Nominees for the 2013 MAG - REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Oh dear.. typos in my mail.. apologies.

This:

"But then again there might have been some other MAG meeting in Baku,
that was really controversial, that I do now know about :) "

Should have been:

But then again there might have been some other MAG meeting in Baku,
that was really controversial, that I do NOT know about :) "

Anriette

On 16/01/2013 14:51, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> Dear all
>
> On the'controversial' MAG meeting that took place in Baku...
>
> If it was the meeting that I attended, for some of the time anyway, it
> was not really controversial and yes, Izumi did report on it.
>
> There was some discussion in the MAG list after the meeting about the
> formal legitimacy of the meeting and the validity of recommendations it
> made.
>
> Some MAG members put forward a position to say that as the meeting was
> not formally constituted, or called in good time, its recommendations
> regarding the chairing of the MAGshould be seen as informal.
>
> When Izumi called the meeting he made it clear it would be informal, so
> this was not really controversial. I think it is a pity that the rest of
> the MAG did not accept that 'informal' meetings proposals with regard to
> having an interim chair, and co-chairs, but I would not really call this
> controversial.
>
> This is not to say that the issue of identifying a chair for the MAG is
> without controversy :)
>
> But then again there might have been some other MAG meeting in Baku,
> that was really controversial, that I do now know about :)
>
> What this allaffirms frommy perspective is that MAG working
> proceduresare still quite open and unclear, and the absence of the
> special advisor is felt quite strongly.  Someof us are still very new (I
> only joined in May 2012as did Bill Drake, Lillian, Judy and others) but
> even for those CS members that have been around for a while I think that
> getting to grips with being effective in the MAG is not easy.
>
> I am not opposing rotation, it is very important, but please also do
> give those CS people that are active in the MAG time to strengthen our
> participation and effectiveness.
>
> Best
>
> Anriette
>
> On 16/01/2013 13:03, parminder wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 04:14 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>>> On 16/01/13 18:39, parminder wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> BTW, there was a rather controversial meeting of the MAG during the
>>>> IGF Baku. Much less have a report from it from MAG's CS members,
>>>> most people even do not know that such a meeting took place, and
>>>> that it was rather controversial n many aspects.
>>> Izumi did report it.
>> Well, then you know that it was a very controversial meeting . Or
>> perhaps you dont :)
>>
>> More on it in a while... A little busy now to get into details. parminder
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