[governance] NomCom for the Appeals Team: Update

[Deirdre Williams]

I'm reluctant to propose Charter amendments but this issue needs
clarification in the Charter.
I believe - open to correction - that the last time a NomCom was used the
Chair was in fact one of the random selectees?
The pointing to the Charter of a different group feels uncomfortable to me;
it would seem preferable to refer to the obvious logic of having an uneven
number of members to avoid a split vote, and including someone with no
responsibility to vote who can facilitate the process itself.
Deirdre


On 23 May 2013 10:30, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> 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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