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Joly MacFie <[log in to unmask]>
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Joly MacFie <[log in to unmask]>
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Back in 2009 we invited Milton to ISOC-NY to express his views on the
proposed constituency model (well summarized below), with Beau Brendler -
who was actively pursuing a Consumer constiuency - as a counterpoint

See http://isoc-ny.org/?p=886

Milton predicted it would get messy, and it seems he was right.

j

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Milton L Mueller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Andrew:
> The real purpose of constituencies is to give a few people a little power
> base from which they can operate; to empower some at the expense of the rest
> of us. The other purpose is to fragment our communication as a stakeholder
> group. No one who supports the mission of NCSG will really want to form a
> new constituency. They can form interest groups, ad hoc coalitions, working
> groups and so on. All that can and will be done and will lead to
> constructive results. But constituency-formation is a way fpr people to
> fragment and undermine NCSG and I would not encourage anyone to pursue it.
>
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