[IGFmaglist] IGF - MAG WG membership

[Lea Kaspar]

Dear Lynn, many thanks for clarifying these points.

Very much support for having the groups open to non-MAG members and to
having all the terms clear and publicly available.

To be honest, I don't necessarily understand the need to limit the WGs to
MAG-only leadership, although I do think that the co-chairs should be
MAG-approved. There seems to be support for the MAG-only chairs idea on the
list though, and I don't plan to go against consensus. I would like to add
a further suggestion though, and that is to introduce a requirement to have
the WG co-Chairs represent different stakeholder groups and that there is,
to the extent possible, stakeholder and gender balance across MAG WGs, as
well as a balance of old/new MAG members. Possibly similar terms could
apply to Main session leads.

Hope this is helpful.

Best wishes,
Lea

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Bhatia, Virat <virat.bhatia at intl.att.com>
wrote:

> Lynn
>
> I concur and support your proposal and the rationale for keeping WGs open
> to all including non-MAG members, but chairs of WGs for existing MAG
> members.
>
> Regards,
> Virat Bhatia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igfmaglist [mailto:igfmaglist-bounces at intgovforum.org] On Behalf Of
> Lynn St.Amour
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 9:21 PM
> To: IGF Maglist <Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org>
> Subject: [IGFmaglist] IGF - MAG WG membership
>
> Dear MAG members,
>
> several other points have been raised re WGs, and I would like us to
> address them here.
>
> -  past practice has been that WGs be open to non-MAG members and I
> believe this practice has support from the current MAG as well.  This is a
> good way to ensure each WG has all the expertise/resource it needs to
> fulfill its charter, so I propose to continue that practice.
>
> - with respect to chairing WGs, I am not sure what the past practice has
> been, but I would like to propose that only current MAG members chair WGs.
> My reasoning is that if the work is important enough to warrant a WG it
> deserves MAG leadership, and this should also help ensure the WG has the
> full support and full attention of the MAG.
>
> - with respect to chartering WGs, it is important that the charter,
> objectives, and membership of a WG be clear, and the secretariat can advise
> in this process.
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts on the above.
>
> Best regards,
> Lynn
>
>
>
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