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<p dir="auto">A short note to the NCUC to inform you that the SSAC Comments on the Independent Review of the ICANN Nominating Committee have just been published.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ssac2018-12-07may18-en.pdf" style="color:#3983C4">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ssac2018-12-07may18-en.pdf</a></p>
<p dir="auto">There are 3 key comments, they are below.</p>
<p dir="auto">regards</p>
<p dir="auto">Robert<br>
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<li value="1"><p dir="auto">The SSAC concurs with the full set of important findings and recommendations in this<br>
report and hopes the NomCom leadership will act quickly on these. We are pleased that<br>
the overall tenor of these recommendations emphasizes process stability, transparency,<br>
accountability, and other ICANN values.</p></li>
<li value="2"><p dir="auto">Addressing recommendations that would affect the SSAC directly, the SSAC notes<br>
Recommendation 9 from the report which states, “All NomCom members should be fully<br>
participating and voting members, except for NomCom leadership.” The SSAC<br>
understands that to convert its representative to the NomCom to a voting member in order<br>
to fully participate in all NomCom activities would require a change to the Bylaws and<br>
that the SSAC representative would then also be subject to the same requirements as other voting members, <br>
including the same term limits. This change needs additional<br>
analysis and consideration by the SSAC and others who would be affected by this<br>
change.</p></li>
<li value="3"><p dir="auto">We believe one recommendation could be further strengthened to better align the<br>
NomCom with ICANN’s values of transparency and accountability. Recommendation 13 states:</p></li>
</ol>
<p dir="auto">Recommendation 13: Publish a “Process Diagram” and codify key elements of<br>
the NomCom process. Each year, the NomCom should be required to highlight<br>
and explain process changes to the ICANN community in an open session.</p>
<p dir="auto">Simply “explaining” process changes does not provide the ICANN community with an<br>
accountability measure to check and balance the proposed processes that the community<br>
finds to be outside acceptable norms. We would like to see a stronger mechanism<br>
recommended that would allow the ICANN community to assert some control in this<br>
area. At a minimum, a means to block major changes that a majority of the community<br>
finds problematic and a process to reconcile them. We note that any process without<br>
some sort of accountability measure does not fit into ICANN’s values.</p>
<p dir="auto">--<br>
Robert Guerra<br>
Cel/Tel +1 416 893 0377<br>
Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org" style="color:#3983C4">rguerra@privaterra.org</a><br>
PGP Keys : <a href="https://keybase.io/rguerra" style="color:#3983C4">https://keybase.io/rguerra</a></p>
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