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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

That brings up an interesting question.

How many technical people in civil society do we currently have here? [never mind wider and narrower ranges of experience]

Nick Ashton-Hart, McTim, Jeremy, me .. I can think of maybe a handful more.  Add people with a dual technical / policy background (Bill Drake, George Sadowsky ..).

Many of us identify with civil society because it is a common cause [for the most part].   

There appears to be a much larger number of caucus members that are public policy people, political scientists, economists, grassroots activists .. not very many of whom have hands on technical experience. And there appear to be sharp ideological differences between at least some of these people versus the technical community - which McTim pointed out.

--srs (iPad)

On 16-Mar-2013, at 9:56, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I do not support sending a letter.
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>> 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. 
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>> 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.
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>> avri
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>> On 15 Mar 2013, at 19:05, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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>> > 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:
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