[governance] COMMENTS SOUGHT: draft letter to ISOC on selection of T&A nominees for CSTD WG on EC

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I do not support sending a letter.
>
> If indeed they are being treated as another Stakeholder group, I do not
> see what job we have interfering with their selection processes. Just as we
> would be highly offended if they told Civil Society how to select
> candidates.
>
> [ST>] You raise legitimate concerns and ordinarily this would hold true
but for the fact that selection can prejudice the selection of "technical
people" who do not necessarily fall within their current terms of reference
and by extension marginalises the participation of technical people from
within civil society.



> I am not making a judgement on any candidate or on their process, which I
> know nothing about. Or even on the issue of whether they should be treated
> as a separate Stakeholder group. I just think it is not our business to
> comment on their process or criteria.
>
>

> avri
>
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2013, at 19:05, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> > Following on from discussions in the main thread on this topic (I'm
> starting a new thread to improve visibility), I have quickly drafted a
> letter that outlines the concerns that a number of us have expressed:
> >
> > http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/isoc-letter
> >
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