[governance] IGF Advisory Group

[Vittorio Bertola]

Avri Doria ha scritto:
> 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

I would expect much broader interest among civil society groups than 
last time.
In any case, I wouldn't expect this to be the only CS nomination process 
- we can't stop anyone from making nominations - but perhaps we can hope 
to make this the most credible and respected one.

> 2. i think that using a nominating committee is a good idea.

I am not totally sure about this, as it will as usual be challenged as a 
clique trying to capture the mechanism etc. - however I think that it's 
the only feasible thing in such a short term, so I support it.

>     - 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 particularly like this idea, and using RFC3797 would be a good thing, 
also for the symbolic value it would have.

>     - 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.

I would also go the other way, e.g. encourage people from outside the 
usual caucus activists to apply as NomCom members - this might help to 
see people from different angles. In any case, all of us should engage 
in some outreach to find both potential NomCom members and potential 
IGF-AG members.
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