[governance] NomCom for the Appeals Team: Update

[Norbert Bollow]

Carlos Vera Quintana <cveraq at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)

More relevant to the question at hand is the language in RFC 1601 where
it is clear that the “non-voting chair” was in addition to the “members
picked at random from a pool of volunteers”, not one of them:

   The IETF nomination committee is formed every year and consists of
   a non-voting chair designated by the Internet Society and seven
   members picked at random from a pool of volunteers.

Yet more significantly, our Charter says about the selection of the
“members selected at random”:

   A nominating committee will be composed of 5 IGC members selected
   at random according to the process documented in RFC3797.

Here is a copy of the abstract of RFC 3797:

   This document describes a method for making random selections in such
   a way that the unbiased nature of the choice is publicly verifiable.
   As an example, the selection of the voting members of the IETF
   Nominations Committee (NomCom) from the pool of eligible volunteers
   is used.  Similar techniques would be applicable to other cases.

Having reviewed all this, I'm coming to the conclusion that in view of
how the word “members” is used in RFC 1601 and in RFC 3797, it is
pretty clear that the practice which the drafters of this part of the
Charter were intending to establish is that the “non-voting chair” is a
participant in the NomCom in addition to the five “members” who are
selected randomly, for a total of six participants.

Greetings,
Norbert

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