Arrrgh! 
These argument actually undermine my support for adding GACians. 

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> They made their request in London, it's in the communique as GAC advice to the board.

The board does not decide the composition of the coordination group, and the CG is independent of ICANN. icANN convenes the process it does not run it. Please remember that. Further GAC is only empowered to offer advice on public policy issues, and this is not a public policy issues (unless you are of the persuasion that anything that governments consider important is a "public policy issue."

>They've asked for five seats, they are a critical stakeholder group, on what grounds can we deny their request?   

On the grounds that 30 other stakeholder groups could make the same request? 
On the grounds that they don't understand the concept of a liaison and need to have the point made? 
Lotsa grounds. 

Again, I am still not opposing the request, due to support within NCSG and for practical reasons, but these arguments suck.