[governance] WSIS principles and conferences

[Milton Mueller]

Congratulations, Danny. I was feeling pretty sure that Avri's proposed method would fail because...well, because all of the active people on this list want to be on the Advisory Group (yes, that includes me), so I thought no one would volunteer for the Nominating Committee. But you proved me wrong. So that's one down, 4 to go. ;-)

I also am concerned about the fact that we have no coordinators and no established procedure for making decisions, and now we are faced with a need for fairly quick action. 

We have no real means of authoritatively choosing a Nominating Committee, except via some form of consensus or passive acquiescence on the list. But if we can choose 5 nomcom members that way, why can't we select 10 IGF-MAG nominees that way also, and eliminate a (potentially time consuming) step? 

--MM

>>> Danny Butt <db at dannybutt.net> 3/17/2006 7:29:41 PM >>>
Could someone clarify the likely role of the IGF advisory group?

If the advisory group will be establishing a process for the forum,  
then our initial role in that should probably be finding CS members  
with process expertise to put forward. I think that WGIG members  
might be precisely the most useful people for that advisory process.  
This might be different than the kind of representation we would want  
for this caucus as a mechanism for CS participation in the IGF itself  
- where particular areas of domain expertise would be useful, and  
where broader outreach will be valuable.

I support Avri's suggestion of a nominating committee that excludes  
IGF-MAG participants, and also the use of the process in RFC3797.

We currently have no way of gauging consensus, but if the nomcom idea  
is agreed to, I am happy to volunteer for the nominating committee.

I can also work on a charter for the group, but I think this is going  
to take a bit longer, can it can come after we get through the IGF- 
MAG process? But I agree with Bill that there is a good opportunity  
here and it should be taken.

Regards,

Danny


On 18/03/2006, at 6:12 AM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

>
> Personally, I will be happy to work on a charter for the group, with
> whoever else wants to join. We haven't decided what we want the  
> group to
> be - procedure only or also substance related, for example - but I  
> guess
> we can follow the proactivity rule: those who really care will work  
> out
> the details, and others will follow as long as they make good choices.




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