PDP and Nomcom rights and responsibilities was Re: NCSG Executive Committee: NCUC Selects ...

[Milton L Mueller]

Agreed. 

This has been - yet another - longstanding area of discrimination against NCUC and special pleading by business lobbyists. NCUC was not even allowed to select the Academic representative to the Nomcom, purely because Alejandro Pisanty didn't like us, so the Board selected it itself. Meanwhile, Marilyn Cade lobbied in the early days that business needed an extra appointment to take account of the difference between "large" and "small" business (note that Marilyn always introduces herself as a small businessperson but her main consulting client is AT&T, not exactly a small player.)

So, yes, revising these appointments along Stakeholder Group lines provides an opportunity to fix these problems.

> One consideration is that we maintain the notion of parity 
> between CSG  
> and NCSG.  Currently CSG gets Nomcom seats based on their multiple  
> constituencies, and in fact one of the constituencies gets 2  
> (BC for  
> big biz and little biz) - so whether the designation is by  
> constituency or SG it should be equal.  This is a good 
> reasons to call  
> for Nomcom representation based on SG.
> 
> a.
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