[governance] draft of note to Plenary list.

[Avri Doria]

<this is a first draft of my outreach note to plenary.  i would like  
to send this out in the next day or so - comments and edits welcome>

Hi,

As may of you are no doubt aware the IGF is going to be accepting  
recommendations of candidates for the IGF multistakeholder Advisory  
Group (IGF-MAG) until 18 April (ref: http://www.intgovforum.org/).

As candidate lists may be submitted by any stakeholder group, the  
Internet governance Caucus (IGC) is planning to put together a list  
of candidates.  In an effort to build as diverse, complete and well  
thought out a list as possible the IGC is taking several steps.

- a randomly selected nomcom is being formed from CS participants in  
the IGC
- a call for suggested candidates will be sent out by the IGC nomcom.

A few words about each of these.

Between now and and the 30th of March, we will be looking for  
volunteers for a nominating committee (nomcom).  Assuming that we  
have at least 25 volunteers who are civil society subscribers to the  
IGC email list (an open list), I will then run a strictly random,  
transparent and repeatable process, according to the protocol and  
code defined in RFC3797, to select 5 nomcom members from among the  
volunteers.  I will serve as the non voting chair of the nomcom.  All  
nomcom participants, voting and non voting, will be disqualified from  
selection as candidates for this year's IGF-MAG.  The nomcom will be  
selected by 1 April and will make its recommendation public before  
the deadline of 18 April

In the meantime, the IGC will be drawing up criteria, similar to  
those produced when the WGIG members were selected - e.g. diversity  
in expertise, focal interest, region, gender, and other  
differentiators to the fullest extent possible.  The intent of the  
IGC is to do outreach to the plenary list and to other civil society  
groups for recommendations on candidates.   Please note that this  
does not mean the IGC assumes it is the only or the official voice of  
civil society in suggesting candidates, the IGF process is open to  
all stakeholders and the IGC is but one stakeholder among many.  It  
just means that the IGC wants to make concerted effort to produce a  
good list of candidates for the IGF-MAG.

This email is the first piece of outreach in this process. I would  
like to recommend that any group or individuals who wish to suggest a  
possible candidate to the IGC nomcom start thinking about its  
recommendations.  I will send out more information as the process  
unfolds further, though the process will most probably require the  
submission of a brief (auto)biographical statement and perhaps a  
statement of why they would be good candidates for the IGF-MAG

thanks

a.

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