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<DIV>late at night here but as a quick response. I think you should think very
carefully about supporting the continuation of all current civil society members
of MAG</DIV>
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<DIV>Several are completely unknown to either Best Bits or IGC, some are quite
inactive, some represent small interest groups only. I think it is a mistake to
support all existing CS MAG people.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jeremy@ciroap.org
href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">Jeremy Malcolm</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:45 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=bestbits@lists.bestbits.net
href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval
- URGENT</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>To summarise the current status of discussions as I perceive them:</DIV>
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<LI>Rather than picking and choosing between the existing civil society
representatives, we should simply support the continuation of all civil
society representatives who have served less than a three-year term.
<LI>But if one or more spots are vacant, some affirmative support has been
received for the self-nominations of Matthew Shears, Nnenna Nwakanma, Bertrand
de la Chapelle to fill them.
<LI>Self-nominations from Ana Perdigao and Imran Ahmed Shah are yet to receive
affirmative support.</LI></UL></DIV>
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<DIV>So, as our contribution, we could add a paragraph simply saying the above
to the joint civil society MAG nomination letter (see below).</DIV>
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<DIV>On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:42 pm, William Drake <<A
href="mailto:william.drake@UZH.CH">william.drake@UZH.CH</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV>But my questions remain. <FONT face=Palatino-Roman> Since others
knew to respond I assume a CFP with this info was issued, but I missed it and
can’t find it in </FONT>the BB archives (apologies if it turns out this is
simply because I’m in a crowded noisy hallway and can’t focus). So
again, could you tell w<FONT face=Palatino-Roman>hen was the call for
nominations, what was the deadline for submission, and what is the process
from here?</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>The general nomination procedure was raised at the Bali meeting and was in
development on the wiki for a while before that, but the proposal to test it out
for the MAG was in the thread at <A
href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/arc/bestbits/2013-11/msg00130.html">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/arc/bestbits/2013-11/msg00130.html</A>.
Since then we've clarified that the steering committee isn't selecting anyone,
just facilitating the process.</DIV><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Palatino-Roman>Looking through other messages from today, I
agree with Mawaki that when BB (and IGC, and anyone else) sends the
secretariat nominations, this should be accompanied by a clear explanation of
who’s making the nominations on what basis and the nomination procedure that’s
been followed so they have context for what they’re looking
at.</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>So this may mean that a joint/combined nomination with the IGC is off the
table, but we can still do a joint civil society letter explaining the different
processes and nominees. That's seems fine to me - we realised that a
combined nomination was ambitious, and the IGC's process is pretty
self-contained.</DIV></DIV>
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