[ncdnhc-discuss] nomcom

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

This is only a partial response, but among many other virtues, the nomcom
ought to have the following properties:

1. No one who sits on the Board has input to its composition (helps lessen
chance of capture, self-perpetuation of clique).

2. Members of the nomcom can't be on the board for a decent interval. (I
gather this is already accepted.)

3. It nomiminates by a system that allows minority preferences to be
reflected.  E.g. a weighted preference ballot rather than a
first-past-the-post system.  Otherwise a system that produced a nomcom of
five who favor vanilla and six who favor chocolate could produce a board
of all chocolate-lovers.


On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM wrote:

> James,
> 
> I take seriously your question on the Nominating Committee proposal. But I
> have to answer your question with a question, because that is the status
> as you surely noticed when reading the E&R Committee paper: assuming that
> there will be a NomCom, what do you think its size should be? how should
> it be composed? what can be done to define the desirable profiles of its
> members, their origin, their diversity, and their responsiveness to the
> needs of the broadest set of communities possible, ie openness?
> 
> Please note the assumption. It won't be too useful, in reply to this
> question, to challenge the NomCom concept, etc., notwithstanding a wide
> range of valid concerns. The question has deliberately been left open.
> There have been a number of proposals to answer it, most of them published
> in the public forum, and we are awaiting further input which will be most
> valued.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty
> 
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> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, James Love wrote:
> 
> > Jefsey is right.  The NomCom *is* the membership, for all practical
> > purposes.  So, Alejandro, Vint, Joe Sims and others should provide some
> > detail on this detail.   Who will be on the NomCom?  How many people will be
> > on the NomCom?  Who appoints people to be on the NomCom?  Does the BOD
> > appoint the members of the NomCom?    Does the NomCom apoint its own
> > members?   Do the SO's appoint the NomCom members?  Do domain holders vote
> > to put people on the NomCom?   .......My guess, the BOD would prefer to
> > control who is on the NomCom.
> >
> > Interesting  note also is that a bare majority on the NomCom is a
> > supermajority on the board, because the board itself appoints several board
> > members.
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey at club-internet.fr>
> > To: <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Trashing Our Founding Principles
> >
> >
> > : On 17:56 03/06/02, DannyYounger at cs.com said:
> > : >a true membership organization with the membership electing their own
> > : >leadership and Board.
> > :
> > : Dear Danny,
> > : the point is who would be the members? In the Reform Committee Plan there
> > : is a Membership: it is the NomComgress.
> > :
> > : You will not change something which has been agreed and decided and that
> > : everyone will support including you very soon (as long as Joe resigned,
> > : McLougling went awayand Stuart Lynn removed his claim on the root server
> > : system and ICANN on IANA).
> > :
> > : What is open is the IANA assignement and the NomComgress designation. What
> > : you want is a representative NomComgress. I would advise 1000+ membres:
> > one
> > : GAC, one ccTLD, one @large per country plus representatives from ISOC,
> > : Consumers, Civil Right. They want to avoid capture and costs, this does
> > not
> > : mean 20 people only in the committee. Again the proper test which was
> > : proposed: could Karl and Andy as well as Nii and Katho be elected with
> > that
> > : system?
> > :
> > : jfc
> > :
> > :
> >
> >
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