WGIG nominations

[Frannie Wellings]

Hello everyone -

Well, I've been out of town at a conference and am now trying to
catch up on all of this mail.  It was a conference on community
wireless networks and ironically, the wireless security at the
university was so tight I had trouble accessing the network. :)
That's just the way it works, I guess.  It's happened at every
internet/tech conference I've been to, including ICANN meetings, of
course.  Harold Feld was also there, which is why you haven't heard
from him yet.

Here's what I believe is the current list of suggested names
according to regions (I've moved Meryem to Europe) -

Region: Africa
   Technical: Adiel Akplogan
   Policy: and Mr. Olivier Nana Nzepa

Asia-Pacific
   Technical: Paul Wilson and Pindar Wong
   Policy: Eung Hwi Chun

Europe
   Technical: Vittorio Bertola
   Policy: Marco Cappato, Karen Banks and Meryem Merzouki

Latin America
   Technical: Raul Echeberria and Florencio Utreras
   Policy: Oscar Robles (LACTLD), Carlos Afonso (RITS) and Erick Iriarte

North America
   Technical: Karl Auerbach
   Policy: Pamela Samuelson, Susan Crawford, William Drake

Arab :
   Technical:___
   Policy:___


First let me say that I agree with both Karen and Milton regarding
regional representation... that we are obviously reaching at times to
find names in certain regions. We are also omitting some of the
competent names from the "usual" regions in the process.  And at the
same time, it's at least a good exercise to push ourselves and our
list members from those regions to do so, to try and come up with
nominees from areas most of us are less familiar with, etc.  If we
don't end up with any names from the Arab region simply because we
haven't been introduced to them or their work before, then we'll have
to deal with that.  We obviously shouldn't nominate someone we know
little about just because of their region, but for some regions it
might be helpful to think in this manner.

I also agree with Robin about not being too rigid in our final
submissions according to policy and technical expertise, but again it
is a good exercise to try and put ourselves out of the policy world
and think about those wise techies.

Next, I absolutely, wholeheartedly support the inclusion of Karl
Auerbach on this list.  I don't want to raise from the depths (if
it's managed to sink at all yet) the past week's conversation, but I
really think he would be ideal.  He did a wonderful job, from my
perspective, at the UN ICT Task Force... he's got the experience and
expertise, he's not beholden to anyone, he's very honest and he was
indeed diplomatic in his statements at the UN.  I always appreciate
his input and I very much hope he will be a member of the WGIG.

I very much support Olivier Nana Nzepa - I was also going to suggest
him, but Thierry has beaten me to it.  I think Anriette Esterhuysen
from South Africa should be on the list as well.  I realize that this
will make it two APC people on the list, but I think both Karen and
Anriette would do a fantastic job at representing positions we'd like
expressed there, they bring a great deal of diverse experience and
they're quite key to their regions.  I know we aren't deciding on
region specifically, but this should say something about their work.

I will also 'officially' put Vittorio Bertola on the list since he
sort of placed himself there. We've worked together on WHOIS Task
Force 3 and at the UN ICT TF forum in NY - I thought he was great -
he made excellent points at just the right times.  Actually, the more
I think about it, the more I would say I strongly support him. :)

I very much support Carlos on this list :) and might also suggest the
possibilities of Francisco Lopez-Bermudez for the Latin American
region and Peter Neumann from the North America region.  I'd like
Michael Froomkin as well, but with a teaching position, I don't think
he'll have the time.  I can send more info about them tomorrow.

I think Marco Cappato is an excellent choice - he's great on privacy
and Intellectual Property policy. I think he'd be a good
representative of our positions, and it's super that he's a good guy
from the government world. Susan Crawford would also be great and I
agree Meryem would as well, but as was previously discussed, she
should be placed in the European region if we're characterizing this
way.

Anyway, I'm really pleased to see effort the NCUC is making to
contribute to this important process.  I was on the Executive
committee meeting chat (stole the gavel from Iliya and everything!!)
and am pleased that we have this process for suggesting nominations
to the WG.  Even if none of our suggestions are accepted, it's
productive and a very good use of this group.  I'm personally really
pleased by civil society IG work in the past few weeks... both in
this NCUC process and the statements being worked on in the IG Caucus
(I'm also on that list).  Using both mechanisms, civil society is
making a meaningful contribution to the Internet Governance debate
and policy process and I hope that the productivity continues.

Best to all, Frannie






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Frannie Wellings
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