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<div><br></div>
<div>See <a href="http://isoc-ny.org/?p=886">http://isoc-ny.org/?p=886</a></div><div><br></div><div>Milton predicted it would get messy, and it seems he was right.</div><div><br></div><div>j<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Andrew:<br>
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.<br>
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