[governance] IGF Advisory Group

Avri Doria avri at psg.com
Fri Mar 17 12:07:45 EST 2006


ps. as the errors below show.  i first thought about a 10 person  
committee then backed down to 5 without editing the rest of the doc.

a.

On 17 mar 2006, at 11.53, Avri Doria wrote:

>
> On 16 mar 2006, at 15.16, Carlos Afonso wrote:
>
>> Geezzzz.... strange discussions will start again... a pre-WGIG dèja
>> vu ;)
>
>
> yeah but, we have some experience to go on.
>
> 1. i think that reaching out as we did for wgig is a good idea and i
> suggest we dust off the old material and update it and use the same
> process to solicit candidates from throughout CS
>
> 2. i think that using a nominating committee is a good idea.
>     - but i think this should be constituted before we start
> soliciting nominations for the IGF-MAG.
>     - i think volunteers should be people willing to disqualify
> themselves from selection
>       for the IGF-MAG
>     - i suggest we pick a number, for example 5, as the number for
> the nominating committee
>     - i suggest that the call for nominating committee members be
> sent out on the plenary list.
>     - i suggest that anyone who wants to volunteer for this submit
> their name and that, assuming we have
>       more then 10 people willing to be on a nominating committee and
> thus willing to exclude themselves
>       from the IGF-MAG, we use a randomized process to pick the 10
> volunteers from the group.
>       this can be done in at least two ways (the extremes are list
> below):
>          - a trusted person picks the names out of a hat.
>          - we use a process, e.g. the transparent, repeatable process
> to be found in RFC3797
>            "Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random
> Selection"
>            found at:
>            http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3797.txt
>     - i think the nominating committee should have a coordinator -
> who is also disqualified from serving
>       on the MAG and who will not have a nominating committee vote in
> selecting the candidates
>
> Note, while i don't think that WGIG members should be disqualified
> from serving on the MAG, i do think we should look beyond these
> regulars and recommend that WGIG members consider volunteering for
> nominating committee selection, if we go this way.
>
>
> just some thoughts to get us talking about specifics.
>
> a.
>
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