[governance] NomCom nomination statments - To publish or not toPublish

Jacqueline Morris jam at jacquelinemorris.com
Sun Apr 9 22:04:13 EDT 2006


I think that the statements shold be published as the members of the
IGC, even though we have delegated a NomCom to choose for us, should
be able to see who has been nominated.
BTW - can we send in additional info on a nominee?
Jacqueline

On 4/9/06, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> The arguments for (2) are pretty strong for me - and from memory the wgig
> process was a rushed one. but happy to go with a strong feeling either way.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> > Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 3:08 PM
> > To: Internet Governance Caucus
> > Subject: [governance] NomCom nomination statments - To
> > publish or not toPublish
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Looking for a sense of the caucus on this issue.
> >
> > to explain:  In putting this nomcom thing together one hole i
> > left in the procedural definition was whether the nominations
> > statement that were sent in to the nomcom should be published on not.
> >
> > The two alternatives are pretty obvious:
> >
> > (1) do as we did in the WGIG process, and publish them on a website
> >          (ref. http://www.net-gov.org/wgig/nominees.php)
> >
> > (2) do as other nomcoms do and keep them private to the nomcom
> >
> > I thought option (1) was obvious as we have based this
> > process on what was done in WGIG with the exception that we
> > added a method for selecting members of nomcom.
> >
> > But since I had neglected to mention that the nomination
> > statements would be published, I felt I had to confirm with
> > each of the few (very few incidentally) nominations that had
> > come in on whether they were willing for their nominations to
> > be published on the web site being set up for this purpose.
> > In this dialogue the question was posed.  This caused me to
> > start consulting both with the members of the nomcom and with
> > some members of the caucus and I have gotten a mixed message.
> >
> >
> > Some of the reasons I am hearing (very much in my own words):
> >
> > - transparency (1)
> > - might limit nominations due to fear of loss of face (2)
> > - allows nomcom to reject a famous person who would seem
> > unrejectable if her name was published (2)
> > - subjects people's nomination statements to a giggle test (1)
> > - might be easier for people from  one culture to do then
> > those from another (2)
> > - demonstrates the thick skin necessary for someone in such a role (1)
> >
> > I am about to send out another reminder for the nomination process.
> > In this I will ask the nominees to indicate if they are
> > willing to have their statement published on a web site.  But
> > I will wait to do so until i have seen which way he consensus
> > in this groups tends.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > a.
> >
> >
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