[governance] Re: Nomcom and conflict of interest

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Having followed this discussion now for I don't know how long, my 
personal conclusion is that exclusions based on formal stakeholder 
categories is neither fair nor very effective. We might exclude people 
we would be happy to nominate or we might nominate people as CS although 
they are only partly CS because they are also something else (run a 
company, work for a government, an ISP, or whatever). It seems thus not 
easy to apply such a general rule in a consistent and fair way.

If we abolish this rule, however, we increase the burden of the nomcom 
as it will be up to the nomcom to decide whether or not somebody 
actually embodies CS spirit, despite any affiliations. This is not easy 
to do. Judging from past nomination results, civil society reps on the 
MAG form a rather diverse group - much more diverse than the reps from 
the Internet industry including ICANN and the technical community, and 
in my view too diverse to have much of an impact as a stakeholder group.

Nonetheless, I would prefer to delegate nomination related decisions to 
a nomcom and dispose of any formal exclusions. If this requires a change 
of our charter I support such a change.

jeanette

Parminder wrote:
>>> If that is the case, then it should be dealt with on an individual
>>> basis in the NomCom, OR we change the charter to exclude govt/PS/$.
>> That's my point. Excluding them as a class is just not on. Picking
>> specific
>> examples like Bertrand, or Stefano, or the Nigerian IT secretary, or
>> whoever
>> else isn't a very valid reason for such exclusion.
>>
>> 	srs
> 
> Just to make sure, I take it that those who profess the above line, will
> have no problem nominating a government official (esp someone directly
> dealing with an area of policy IGC engages with) as IGC's rep to MAG, and
> for other positions/ places. And that they are ready to freely consider any
> such person as CS. 
> 
> 
> Parminder 
> 
> 
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