[governance] NomCom for the Appeals Team: Update

[Kivuva]

Congrats to all especially to Wilson Abigaba
I second Ginger Paque as the non-voting chair.

Regards
Mwendwa Kivuva



On 23 May 2013 17:48, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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