[bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee

[parminder]

On Thursday 05 December 2013 04:35 PM, Anja Kovacs wrote:
> I agree that Rafik would be a good choice.
>
> What I'm not so clear about is why the four Brazilian liaisons should 
> also continue to be de facto representatives in the 1net Steering 
> Committee,
Anja

I might have missed it, but I dont remember seeing any proposal to have 
our 4 Brazilian liaisons to Brazil meeting organising structure also be 
CS reps on the Steering Committee.

  parminder


> if such a thing is indeed going to be put into place immediately (I 
> quite liked Andrew Sullivan's suggestions on the 1net email list to 
> simply let people take up responsibility for things they are 
> interested in for now).
>
> As Jeremy argued, when there are really good candidates, I'm ok with 
> people being representatives on both the Brazil committees and on 
> 1net, and I can imagine that it would be good to have one or two 
> Brazilians on both, to make the link. But now that 1net has been 
> delinked in many ways from Brazil, surely it would be good to have a 
> broader representation there? Even if I am sure they'd all do a great 
> job, somehow having four out of five 1net reps being Brazilian just 
> doesn't seem like the right balance to me....
>
> What do others think?
>
> Best,
> Anja
>
>
>
>
> On 5 December 2013 15:51, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch 
> <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Rafik is the elected chair of NCSG, which comprises a) NCUC, with
>     313 members from 78 countries, including 88 noncommercial
>     organizations and 225 individuals; b) NPOC, with 52 nonprofit
>     organizations in a couple dozen countries; and c) some free
>     floating individual members that are in neither constituency.
>      NCSG dwarfs in size most other networks in this space, operates
>     in a transparent and accountable manner, and has ongoing working
>     relations with other stakeholder groups and ICANN, so one would
>     think he’d be an obvious choice.
>
>     Best,
>
>     Bill
>
>     On Dec 4, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org
>     <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>> wrote:
>
>>     On 4 Dec 2013, at 11:37 pm, Carolina Rossini
>>     <carolina.rossini at gmail.com <mailto:carolina.rossini at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>>     Robin Gross? Rafik?
>>>     I have a feeling that could be interesting to have the same
>>>     people in different committees to ensure that we have clear
>>>     information (or make the questions to try to gather better
>>>     information based on a cross-fora observation). I am just not
>>>     sure they are part of BB. They are part of other CS coalitions...
>>
>>     That isn't necessarily a barrier.  But in the case of Robin
>>     Gross, she is not eligible as she is on the joint committee.
>>      Rafik seems like a good choice, if he is willing (we'll ask).
>>
>>     Also, the whole question about these nominations are necessary
>>     has just been reopened on the 1net list, so who knows whether
>>     things may change... at least, we are hoping to get more time to
>>     come back with names (perhaps until 16 December).
>
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