[governance] IGC nominees for MAG

[Meryem Marzouki]

Adam, and all,

Le 18 mars 08 à 17:09, Adam Peake a écrit :

> Anyway, Carlos is proposing --actually organizing and doing-- a  
> much more principled approach.
[...]
>
> I agree, let a nomcom make recommendations.

Contrarily to the LAC caucus, the nomcom is not an option for IGC.  
It's mandatory per the IGC charter. So - and I'm pretty comfortable  
to remind this as someone who entirely disagree on the nomcom process  
to select people, who accordingly voted against this provision when  
adopting the IGC charter, and still accordingly is never volunteering  
for nomcoms - unless the IGC charter is revised and this is unlikely  
right now, we have to go through the nomcom, fullstop. I'm with  
Diderot on this (and on many other issues as well:))

Let me add that to the best of my understanding, no one may be  
recused from volunteering to a nomcom. And that "All nomcom  
participants, voting and non voting, will be disqualified from  
selection as candidates for the list or team being chosen" (see  
http://www.igcaucus.org/nomcom-process.html).

First rule: don't change the rules during the process (or, worse,  
retroactively). In terms of legislation, this is called rule of law.

> And the caucus should make sure other interested groups know about  
> the process and have the opportunity to either participate in what  
> we're doing or submit names independently.

I don't agree with this. More exactly, I don't agree with IGC  
declaring itself all of sudden as representing more than what it is,  
i.e. this list (or even eligible members of the IGC, as Parminder  
recently reminded: "I must inform the new members that they will be  
eligible for voting (if they have subscribed to the charter in their  
acceptance email)
only after being on the list for 2 months. Same goes for IGC  
positions, including nomcom etc...".

First implication of this is that people proposed by IGC for MAG  
nominations should be accountable to IGC, and not dilute the  
accountability need in whatever CS fuzziness. If someone is proposed  
by another entity in addition to IGC, then bravo, but this doesn't  
reduce by any mean the need for accountability to IGC.

Best,
Meryem____________________________________________________________
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