[governance] NomCom for the Appeals Team: Update

[Carlos Vera Quintana]

Usually in parliamentary practice, the non voting status means vote ONLY when there is not a majority in the board (i.e if and only if there is a draw in the board the chair vote to tie)

Carlos Vera
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El 23/05/2013, a las 5:34, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> escribió:

> Carlos Vera <cveraq at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> In http://www.igcaucus.org/nomcom-process:
>> 
>> "A nominating committee will be composed of 5 IGC members selected at
>> random according to the process documented in RFC3797."
>> 
>> So if we elect an additional member as chair, will have 6 members, 5
>> voting and one non voting and not 5 as per charter
> 
> But is the non voting chair automatically a “member” even if she or he
> was not one of the five that have been randomly selected?
> 
> A little later, we have this sentence:
> 
>  All nomcom participants, voting and non voting, will be disqualified
>  from selection as candidates for the list or team being chosen.
> 
> The fact that a different term, “participants” ranther than “members”,
> is used here, IMO allows for the interpretation that the non voting
> chair does not have to be one of the five that were randomly selected.
> 
> I would suggest that normally in groups where voting takes place,
> “members” of the group are persons with voting rights.
> 
> 
> Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:
> 
>> Further down you find:
>> 
>> 2. 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.
>> 
>> so perhaps properly speaking the chair is not part of the nomcom, but
>> extra to it. i beleive it was intended to be a person other than one
>> of the 5 voting members. and that is certainly the practice we have
>> followed up until this point.
> 
> I thought the same until I just checked the reports on
> http://igcaucus.org/archives-nominations-and-elections ...
> 
> For the following selections, there was a non voting chair in addition
> to the five randomly selected NomCom members:
> * 2006 MAG nominations
> * 2007 Appeals Team
> * 2009 MAG nominations
> * 2012 Appeals Team
> * 2013 MAG nominations
> * 2013 nominations for Enhanced Cooperation WG (until Guru resigned)
> 
> For the following selections, the NomCom had five participants in
> total including the non voting chair:
> * 2008 Appeals Team
> * 2008 MAG nominations
> * 2010 Appeals Team
> * 2010 CSTD WG nominations
> * 2013 nominations for Enhanced Cooperation WG (after Guru resigned)
> 
> In conclusion, there is significant precedent both for choosing the
> NomCom non voting chair from among the randomly selected NomCom members
> and also for choosing the non voting chair from outside this group.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> -- 
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> 1. Respond to the content of assertions and arguments, not to the person
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