[governance] NomCom selection process; request for advice

[Norbert Bollow]

[IGC Coordinator hat on]

Dear all

As previously discussed, we need a Nominating Committee (NomCom) [1]
that will recommend five Civil Society representatives for the planned
CSTD [2] Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation [3].
(Notes: [1] http://igcaucus.org/nomcom-process
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Science_and_Technology_for_Development
[3] the relevant parts of the UN General Assembly resolution requesting
the creation of this Working Group are quoted on
http://enhanced-cooperation.org )

In accordance with what the charter currently says, this NomCom will
be selected for this specific decision and will be disbanded after the
decision is made. (In other words, if the charter amendment passes
which introduces a yearly NomCom, that change will not yet affect this
NomCom which we will, in accordance with the current charter text,
select for a specific decision.) By going ahead with the NomCom
selection already now we intend to ensure that the NomCom has
sufficient time to discuss and define selection criteria etc.

Five voting NomCom members plus two reserves will be randomly selected 
from the pool of volunteers. In addition, the NomCom needs a non-voting
chairperson. The charter says about this: “A non voting chair will be
appointed by the coordinators for each nomcom with the advice of the IGC
membership. In order to serve as a chair, it is recommended that a
person has served in at least one nomcom previously.”

Consequently, we hereby invite the Internet Governance Caucus membership
to give advice on who would be a good chairperson for the NomCom. Please
give your advice by Wednesday January 30.


The remainder of this message announces the details of the random
selection process that will be used, so that it will be possible to
verify afterwards that this process was not manipulated.

The selection will be carried out by means of the reference program code
"Publicly Verifiable Random Selection" from RFC 3797 [4], as downloaded
from [5]. The file pvrs-0.3.tgz has SHA-1 hash [6]
bf68909204174dbb3a9b76b3fc6392b6576fb5f1. The random seed will consist
of the seven numbers of the Wednesday January 30 Lotto draw of the
UK National Lottery [7] (the six "ball numbers" followed by the number
of the "bonus ball").
[4] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3797.txt
[5] http://www.malcolm.id.au/files/software/unix/pvrs/pvrs-0.3.tgz
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1
[7] https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/drawHistory.do

For the sake of completeness, here is again the numbered list of NomCom
volunteers (this had been announced before.)
1.  Kerry Brown
2.  Mawaki Chango
3.  Jeremy Malcolm
4.  Tapani Tarvainen
5.  Fouad Bajwa
6.  Gideon Rop
7.  Vincent Solomon Aliama
8.  Mohamed Samir Zahran
9.  Clement Martial Aboudem Bavou
10. Carlos Vera Quintana
11. Mwendwa Kivuva
12. Norbert Komlan Glakpe
13. Julián Casasbuenas G
14. Antonio Medina Gómez
15. José F. Callo Romero
16. Devon Blake
17. Tracey Naughton
18. Michel Tchonang Linze
19. Izumi Aizu
20. Carlos Watson
21. Jose Felix Arias Ynche
22. Sarah Kiden
23. Lillian Nalwoga
24. Asama Abel Excel
25. Philip Fomba Johnson
26. Joao Carlos Caribe
27. Abdul Jaleel Shittu

Greetings,
Norbert

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