[governance] Fwd: [igf_members] MAG Renewal

[Roland Perry]

In message <20130515083057.GA8918 at hserus.net>, at 01:30:57 on Wed, 15 
May 2013, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> writes

>>While I was working with RIPE NCC, I always found it interesting that 
>>several technicians working in the deployment of their national 
>>academic networks would self-identify as "government" (rather than 
>>"ISP"), on the grounds that the network was owned by the government.
>
>Not particularly odd when you consider that the academic network personnel
>would get their paychecks from the government, report to a ministry
>bureaucrat, have government job titles and pay scales ..

But when their presence gets published under "government", and most 
people looking at the statistic assume that "government" means regulator 
or GAC-type person, confusion can arise. Just as some assume that there 
will be mainly network engineers and professors in the "Technical and 
Academic community" roll.

Of course, one way that governments can participate in ICANN, other than 
by sending people to the GAC, is by sending their technical people to 
some of the other silos. (They could send GAC-type people to other silos 
too, but it seems they can usually only justify the trip by having a 
whole silo of their own, and I fully understand the dynamic of that).
-- 
Roland Perry

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