[governance] NomCom for the Appeals Team: Update

[Carlos Vera Quintana]

It's very concrete. You're right! I agree with you now! 

Carlos Vera
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El 23/05/2013, a las 9:30, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> escribió:

> 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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