[governance] IGC nominees for MAG

[Ian Peter]

Count me in for a nomcom pool as well

I think with avri volunteering to pull this together we should be able to
act decisively and manage to come up with representative nominations



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Afonso [mailto:ca at rits.org.br]
> Sent: 18 March 2008 07:36
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGC nominees for MAG
> 
> We need to untangle this. If there is to be a nomcom, it has to adhere
> to certain rules (not nominating themselves, not taking the initiative
> to capture nominees a la ICANN; it should just facilitate the process
> and try to consolidate a list of names generated by the IGC and the
> different other regional cauci as well as other CS constituencies which
> are involved in the IG debate).
> 
> Otherwise this might lead to an endless imbroglio (Vittorio knows the
> meaning of the word...) and we better stick to Vittorio's suggestion.
> 
> Probably the nomcom thing might become so troublesome that we might
> overshoot all deadlines and end up nominating no one, or do so with a
> lot of disagreements. Let us be careful (but we also need to act
> quickly...).
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> > Milton L Mueller ha scritto:
> >> You can tell from the above that I do not agree with Adam's position
> >> below:
> >>
> >> Adam Peake:
> >>> The five members of the MAG the caucus nomcom recommended in 2006 be
> >>> included on any list of candidates with a note to say the caucus
> >>> would support their continued membership of the MAG should the SG
> >>> find they continue to enhance the balance of the group. The five
> >>> (unless anyone drops out) are included in any candidate list.
> >>
> >> Indeed, I find it difficult to think of any justification for this
> rule.
> >> As I said, this list is nothing more than advice on who to throw out
> and
> >> who could be added. So creating a rule that forces us to support all
> >> current members eliminates half of our our ability to give advice. It
> >> also completely eviscerates any pressure we are able to place on
> >> existing MAG members who allegedly represent us. This is absurd.
> >
> > Actually, I think that this "double track" would end up this way: you
> > have a big and interesting discussion from the bottom about who could do
> > this job well, then you put a lot of effort in coming to consensus on a
> > couple of names, but then you discover that these two names are just to
> > be added on a slate of five others that were already preselected from
> > the top, and did not have to go through any kind of public scrutiny.
> >
> > Where did I already see this model? I think it was in ICANN's At Large
> > elections in 2000, and at that time I'm quite sure that some of the
> > people who now advocate this idea were challenging it on the basis of
> > its top-down nature :)
> >
> > My feeling is that many, possibly most, of the current MAG members
> > should and will be confirmed anyway, whatever process we pick. So why
> > pick one that will leave to any loser the sense of not having been
> > playing on a level field? How helpful can that be to the future
> > credibility of the MAG and of the IGF in general?
> >
> > Anyway, I volunteer for the Nomcom.
> >
> > Ciao,
> 
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