[governance] RE: Guidance sought on CSTD nominations and

[Fouad Bajwa]

Milton's and Mawaki's views should be worth a consideration.

It would be useful for our members that are going to participate in
the Open Consultations, MAG Meeting and are forwarding their
nominations (as myself) and available if selected to be present in
Geneva for the CSTD working group on IGF improvements to state in
their nomination profile that they may also be carrying a technical
profile. In my case, I am a technical person with both a technical
education and professional experience profile of more than a decade.

Again, it would also be useful to note that IGC is not the only CS
stakeholder and there are other CS stakeholders involved in the
process. I wonder if this list is to be forwarded to the CSTD or to
the IGF secretariat for black box selection and whether other CS
stakeholders are also forwarding their nominations for inclusion into
this group of ten names from CS.

As regards to the selection of technical community representatives, it
is not the purpose of IGC to select nominations for other stakeholder
groups unless we have a formal understanding/agreement with the other
stakeholder groups to represent them and I can't figure out how we can
represent them or should we approach the issue by nominating technical
people amongst us. We can go for a quick vote or so but we are now
less than a month away from arriving in Geneva? Anyone who is
nominated/selected might have to be present in Geneva (I am not aware
of any remote participation facilitations at the CSTD working group
session)

-- 
Regards.
--------------------------
Fouad Bajwa


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to agree with Milton here. I don't read this necessarily as
> nominating candidates on behalf of other stakeholder groups. The request,
> IMHO, is that three of our nominees qualify as being from the "technical
> community." Although IGC is meant to address public policy issues and to
> advance somewhat a social agenda, we know it's not exclusive of the
> technical community and many people among us have more than one profile in
> relation to IG, including a technical one.
>
> If CSTD wanted to have nominees from structures such as ISOC or IETF as
> stakeholder groups, those structures are even more formally organized than
> us and I'm sure CSTD would have just sent them a request directly. I don't
> believe the fact that IGC emerged during WSIS is reason for any UN body to
> communicate only with us as CS group and not to other potential CS/
> technical stakeholders. So my interpretation is the same as Milton's, and
> this would not mean that we are not reaching out (again there are people
> among us who are ISOC, IETF or former IETF members, etc.).
>
> Mawaki
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Ian
>> There are many people on this list who could qualify as "technical
>> community" (Avri, McTim, Curran) or as academics who bridge technology and
>> policy such as myself, Lee McKnight, William Drake, Izumi Aizu, Hakikur
>> Rahman. So the best approach is for NomCom to look at these kinds of
>> qualifications as they assess nominees
>>
>> I would oppose this approach:
>>
>> > Write to ISOC and ask them to nominate three representatives which we
>> > forward on their behalf
>>
>> Though notifying ISOC about our needs so they can promote people within
>> IGC who might want to put themselves forward would be good.
>>
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