[governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Kofi Annan nominates IFG Advisory Group

[Milton Mueller]

Bonjour Michel:

It is a fair question, but not so relevant now. I will indulge your desire for me to second-guess this specific list of names, if you agree to listen to me talk about the kind of process that the IGF should use in the future.

First and foremost, we need to avoid "patronage" systems of selection. It is unacceptable to let everyone lobby a "wise person" (UN SG) who makes political bargains that are not transparent and not accountable.

We need to separate commitments to fund the IGF from control over its composition. (Easier to say than to do, of course).

I think the MAG should be much smaller and considered to be much less important. We originally proposed 12-15 people. Delegates to the MAG should be considered representatives of broad stakeholder groups and NOT of their specific organizations or interests. 

For the CS slots, I believe the IGF Secretariat should have respected the formal and open civil society process organized around this caucus, and make the IGC recommendations the basis of all ten of its 10 CS selections. If it does not consider this caucus an acceptable mechanism, it should propose another one, perhaps regionally based. 

I think similar, globally representative and open mechanisms should be used to select Private Sector representatives. 

I think ICANN as an organization should have had at most one Board member represented, and there should be no staff member from ICANN. 

I think it is good that a ccTLD operator and a RIR operator are on there. I am happy that IETF and W3C are represented. I have always been an advocate of representation for the technical community. 

But there should also be someone additional from the human rights community, open source software community, privacy expert. 

I hope Babelfish serves you as well as it did me. 

>>> kohmichel at yahoo.fr 5/19/2006 8:33:41 AM >>>
Bonjour Milton,
   
  d'après toi, quelle aurait du être une répartition juste ? 
  Sur quels critères ?
   
  Michel Towa 

Milton Mueller <Mueller at syr.edu> a écrit :
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Carlos:

>>> ca at rits.org.br 5/18/2006 5:11 PM >>>
>This is the distribution of the 45 members (not counting Nitin), as I

>see it:
>
>19 from governments
>10 from business
>09 from the Icann system (including ISOC)
>07 from civil society

Here is my perspective on the composition of the MAG:
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/18/226205&mode=thread 
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