[governance] draft of note to Plenary list.

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Dear Avri,

Thanks for this good draft.

A few suggestions to make it clearer to those who have not followed all the
discussions (modifications in *bold*) :


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 *that volunteer to be part of it*
- a call for suggested candidates* for the IGF-MAG* will be sent out by the
IGC nomcom
*to the IGC, Plenary and other CS lists*.

A few words about each of these.

Between now and and the 30th of March, we will be looking for
volunteers *within the IGC* 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, *but potential candidates
to the IGF-MAG are encouraged to volunteer to the NomCom*.
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, (*suppress* : 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 *to guide selection*.  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 *group* 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
*to the IGC NomCom* a possible candidate* for the IGF MAG* 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

Hope it helps

Best

Bertrand



On 3/26/06, Avri Doria <avri at psg.com> wrote:
>
> <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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