ICANN SOI to fill sham noncommercial council seats

[Fouad Bajwa]

But how do we proceed then? Like, I am from Pakistan and I want to
learn how a meaningful contribution can be made within the NCUC
framework?

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:47 PM, William
Drake<william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:07 AM, David Cake wrote:
>
>> At 7:48 AM +0100 6/8/09, Rebecca MacKinnon wrote:
>>>
>>> It's highly unfortunate and disappointing.
>>>
>>> Nonetheless, should we encourage NCUC community members to step up for
>>> this, particularly members who come from countries in the developing
>>> world and/or from countries which do not have free and fair elections,
>>> and thus whose governments (and by extension GAC representatives)
>>> arguably do not represent citizens' interests?
>>>
>>> The alternative it seems is that it would be filled with people
>>> currently unknown to the NCUC community.
>>>
>>> They want diversity, we show them we have it?
>>
>>        In my opinion, we should nominate as many people as we can, from as
>> many different groups as we can (certainly including, but not limited to,
>> members from the developing world, and from countries whose GAC
>> representatives may not represent them well).
>>        We have basically no idea what criteria the SIC will be using to
>> select candidates,
>
> I think we do: persons not currently affiliated with NCUC.  We already
> suggested three credible names that were "diverse and robust,"  and because
> we did it (rather than having them injected sotto voce) apparently they're
> non-starters with the CSG => staff => SIC.
>
>> and it is in our interest to nominate people that cover as many bases as
>> possible. We should be putting up people from a range of backgrounds, from a
>> range of countries, to maximise our chances that these seats will go to
>> someone sympathetic to NCUC.
>
> I agree.  I don't expect success, but think we should take every opportunity
> to have our reasonable suggestions rejected so as to strengthen our case,
> internally and externally.
>
> Bill
>>
>>
>



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