[governance] civil society co ordination group - call for comments

[Norbert Bollow]

I've already said and written many times that I'm in favor of setting
up a Civil Society Joint NomCom process (with randomly selected
voting members for each selection task), and this is still my opinion. 


Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote about his personal experiences
with NomComs:

> Only one of 9 had all members active

The original NomCom process, at IETF, has the requirement that people
are included in the selection pool for the NomCom only if they “have
attended at least 3 out of the last 5 IETF meetings.”

I think that the risk of a significant percentage of NomCom members
being inactive can be significantly reduced by adopting some kind of
analogous criterion. 

> most worked on the basis of only one or two active members.

I'm assuming that this remark is in the context of NomComs such as
those used by IGC with only a small number of voting members (in IGC's
case, only five).

I believe this problem has been reduced in IGC since the practice was
adopted of including already in the random selection process the
selection of “reserves” who would be called upon to replace people
selected as voting members who then don't actually serve.

Another change that can be made to prevent that kind of problem is to
increase the number of voting NomCom members that are appointed
on the basis of the random selection.

The size of the volunteer pool, which may be limited in smaller
communities, should not be an issue for a Civil Society Joint NomCom
process.

IETF NomComs have ten randomly selected voting members, this is IMO a
good number for a Civil Society Joint NomCom process also.


Greetings,
Norbert

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