<div dir="ltr">Hi !<div>I give my support to Bill. +1.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-Olévié-</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-02 16:38 GMT+02:00 William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello<br><br>Thanks much folks for the various expressions of support. I would indeed like to serve on the 2017 NomCom. I worked pretty hard on the 2016 committee and am ready to do it again. <br><br>As a couple people indicated, this is a position in which a second year makes sense because one’s effectiveness increases the more you learn the game and demonstrate an ability to listen and offer good judgement, etc. That’s why the represented groups generally seem to reappoint their people, as has NCUC <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/participate/ncuc-" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/participate/ncuc-</a>appointments/. (In fact a number of colleagues already indicated at our Helsinki meeting that they’d be back, which should help with the efforts I mentioned previously to improve our procedures and institutional memory). It’s also why the 2014 Board Working Group on the NomCom recommended that the terms for all voting members should be for two years, with no member allowed to serve for two consecutive terms. Its recs were set aside because key ones were horrid, but this one arguably made sense.<br><br>Looking to our future representation, perhaps I should say that it’s also a position in which veteran experience going in is rather helpful. To be effective one needs background on the diverse players, interests and shared histories in the community. I’d suggest that the best trajectory into the NomCom is to first serve in another capacity, e.g. NCUC EC or GNSO Council, where one has a group of colleagues and support to move up the learning curve. In contrast, in the NomCom the NCUC rep is alone in a group of 15 votes/17 voices. Advocating balanced, high quality appointments that are at least not hostile to noncommercial concerns can be challenging. <br><br>Further to the last point — Ed rightly mentioned the intra-GNSO imbalance. A number of us have indeed raised the lack of NPOC representation in various contexts and gotten pushback from the board. Meanwhile the three CSG constituencies get four reps (two for the BC!) and contracted also gets two reps. How this will evolve if/when we new DNS industry constituencies due to the new gTLD program is hard to say, but the above mentioned 2014 Board Working Group on the NomCom most certainly got it wrong in suggesting that NomCom should be restructured as follows to avoid “GNSO over-representation”:<br><br>‐ Five members appointed from the At‐Large Advisory Committee, with one from each Regional At‐Large Organization<br>‐ Five members appointed from the ccNSO, with one from each geographic region<br>‐ Five members appointed from the ASO, with one from each geographic region<br>‐ Four members appointed from the GNSO, with one from each Stakeholder Group<br>‐ Up to three members appointed from the GAC<br>‐ One member each from the IAB (IETF), SSAC and RSSAC<br><br>Luckily this generated an outcry and was not acted upon, but it indicates that composition is a can of worms to be reopened carefully…<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Bill<div><br><div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><b>Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI</b><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>Co-Gérantt de O and K IT SOLUTIONS sarl </i></font></span><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>Editeur de logiciels de gestion (PGI/ERP) S.I.G.E. (http://<a href="http://www.oandkit.com" target="_blank">www.oandkit.com</a>)</i></font></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>Président/CEO de l'INTIC4DEV (Institut des TIC pour le développement) <a href="http://www.intic4dev.org" target="_blank">http://www.intic4dev.org</a> <br></i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>Eminent National Expert for the World Summit Award (<a href="http://www.wsis-award.org" target="_blank">http://www.wsis-award.org</a>) <br></i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>Secrétaire Général de l'ESTETIC - Association Togolaise des professionnels des TIC (<a href="http://www.estetic.tg" target="_blank">http://www.estetic.tg</a>)<br></i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>ICANN-GNSO-NCSG-NPOC (<a href="http://www.npoc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.npoc.org/</a>) </i><i><span>ICANN - Fellow & Alumni<i> (<a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org</a>) - </i></span>Membre de Internet Society (http://<a href="http://www.isoc.org" target="_blank">www.isoc.org</a>)-</i></font></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><i>Membre fondateur du RIK-Togo (Réseau Interprofessionnel du Karité au Togo) </i></font></span><span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1">(<a href="http://www.globalshea.com" target="_blank">http://www.globalshea.com</a>)</font></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="1"><span><i>Skype : olevie1 FaceBook : @olivier.kouami.3 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé – Togo</i></span></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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