NCSG selections for the SSR & WHOIS AoC Review Teams

Wed Aug 18 15:09:45 CEST 2010

Bill,

Thanks for the reminder.  For the WHOIS AoC Review Team I support Amber.
I think it is important and (refreshing) to have the review team
comprised of individuals with practical experience using WHOIS records.
Moreover, it I believe it is important to involve new faces to the
discussion, especially not-for-profit organizations that use the DNS and
WHOIS to execute its mission and activities in an approach that is
different from an individual registrant/user or a commercial enterprise.

For the SSR AoC Review Team, I support David.

We should discuss whether and how to support endorsements from other SGs
once announced.  

Debbie

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From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of
William Drake
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:17 AM
To: NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: NCSG selections for the SSR & WHOIS AoC Review Teams

HI

There has been very little response for PC members and the candidates
have not opted to provide any more information/rationale to the members
list as I'd encouraged them to do on the last call.  Nevertheless, we
need to notify Glen/Council of our selections by Friday, and Council
will discuss next week.  We have four quality candidates but must pick
two.

Wendy and Rafik have expressed on this list a preference for Kim for
WHOIS.  I agree, so there's three.  If I recall correctly others had
expressed similar sentiments before when he submitted his application.
I'm guessing Debbie may prefer Amber...?

For SSR, a number of people have informally indicated a preference for
David (who I guess counts as Asia-Pacific) this time.  Hopefully George
(who until recently was with the govt telecom operator and participating
in ccNSO) will in time move more fully into the NC world and we could
engage him more fully later down the line.

FWIW my suggestion would be to endorse Kim for WHOIS, David for SSR, and
indicate Amber and George as candidates we could support in the almost
certain event of a diversity procedure involving Council votes to
potentially add two names.  

For SSR, there's a very high probability that George would be added in
this manner, as all six of the non-NCSG candidates are from the USA
(surprise!). http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/dns-ssr-en.htm.  Whether
the selectors would then pick him, who knows, it'll be tough as GNSO
gets only three slots.

Similarly, for WHOIS, seven of eight candidates are from the USA
http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/whois-policies-en.htm so putting Kim
on alone will not meet the geo diversity requirement.  Nothing can be
done about that.  The outstanding question will be gender diversity.  I
assume the registries will endorse Kathy (we can mention our support of
her, too).  If CSG picks one of its guys over Susan the pool would be
three men one woman and here too there'd be a diversity procedure and
Amber would likely be voted into the pool.

So we could well end up with all four NCSG candidates going forward.

Anyway, please respond stating preferences on the record so we can make
a decision by tomorrow.

Thanks,

Bill

On Jul 31, 2010, at 7:14 AM, William Drake wrote:

Hi

The deadline for applications having passed, we now begin the three
weeks period during which NCSG has to decide who it endorses for the SSR
and WHOIS review teams.  In both cases, we should select a primary
person and also have in mind a few possible alternatives in the event
that the SG selections yield an inadequately diverse pool and thus
trigger the possible selection of 1 or 2 additional names by Council, in
coordination with the SGs.  For the WHOIS RT, GNSO got four seats, so
whomever we select as our primary is guaranteed to be on the RT.  For
the SSR RT, GNSO got three seats, so whomever we pick has a decent
chance but is not guaranteed to get on, it's up to Rod and Heather as
the Selectors.

The eight candidates for WHOIS are here
http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/whois-policies-en.htm

The following indicated that they feel most closely aligned with NCSG

Kim G. Von Arx

Amber Sterling

The seven candidates for SSR are here
http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/dns-ssr-en.htm

The following indicated that they feel most closely aligned with NCSG

David Cake

George Asare Sakyi

Please note: a) not that we necessarily would, but technically any SG
can endorse any candidates irrespective of which SG they have identified
themselves with, and b) in the event that Council did end up having to
use the diversity procedure, we should have  additional names we could
support or at least live with.  So while our attention should presumably
concentrate in the first instance on the four folks who have asked for
NCSG endorsement, it'd be good to have a look at the entire pools and
see whether there are others who we could support if it comes to that.

Council's next teleconference is 5 August 2010 @ 15:00 UTC, agenda and
motions at 

https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?gnso_council_workspace

Presumably NCSG will do a cll on 4 August, next Wednesday.  We will need
to have a discussion there of the candidates for endorsement and get
community input for the Policy Committee with an eye to the 20 August
deadline for endorsements. So with apologies for the short time line, if
in the next 4 days people could have a look at the candidates that would
help.  We could also usefully have some discussion in advance here on
the list, if the candidates would care to share their respective pitches
on why they're the right people for the jobs etc.

Thanks,

Bill

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes at verisign.com>

Date: July 30, 2010 5:47:16 PM GMT+02:00

To: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes at verisign.com>, "Council GNSO"
<council at gnso.icann.org>

Subject: [council] RE: SSR & WHOIS AoC Reviews - Applications - GNSO
Endorsement

Here's corrected message:

Here are the final set of applicants for the AoC SSR & Whois RTs.  Note
that GNSO AoC Reviews site contains these as well with their country and
SG; see  http://gnso.icann.org/aoc-reviews/ .

The GNSO 21-day period for SG endorsements begins now.  Primary SG
endorsements and any alternate candidates to meet diversity goals are
due not later than Friday, 20 August, but if you are able to provide
them by Wednesday, 18 August, or sooner that would be much appreciated
so that we can meet our procedural requirement of 8-day advance notice
for our 26 August meeting.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Chuck

From: Alice Jansen [mailto:alice.jansen at icann.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:06 AM
To: Gomes, Chuck
Cc: 'Glen'; Olof Nordling
Subject: SSR & WHOIS AoC Reviews - Applications - GNSO Endorsement
Importance: High

Dear Chuck,

As you know, the deadline for a position of volunteer Member on the
Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS (Affrev 2 - SSR) and WHOIS
Policy (Affrev 4 - WHOIS) Review Teams expired yesterday.

We are pleased to inform you that the overall number of applications
received for a position on the Affirmation review 2 (SSR) tallies up to
21 while 15 candidatures were submitted for the Affirmation review 4
(WHOIS).

Among the applicants, 15 Community Members stated their willingness to
represent the GNSO during the process; the Review(s) for which they are
volunteering are indicated for your convenience:

-          Bill Smith - 1. WHOIS 2. SSR

-          David Cake - SSR

-          Eric Brunner-Williams - 1. SSR 4. WHOIS

-          George Sakyi - SSR

-          Jeff Brueggeman - SSR

-          Kenneth Silva -SRR

-          Richard Wilhem - SRR

-          Amber Sterling - WHOIS

-          Babagana Abubakar - WHOIS

-          James Bladel - WHOIS

-          Kathy Kleiman - WHOIS

-          Kim Von Arx - WHOIS

-          Susan Kawaguchi - WHOIS

-           

Attached please find the respective applicants' files and details.

Passing on the torch to you, we now invite you to review these
candidatures so as to determine the applications the GNSO wishes to
endorse. Please inform us of your decision no later than 12 September -
23:59 UTC so that ICANN's CEO - Mr. Rod Beckstrom - and the Chair of the
GAC - Mrs. Heather Dryden - may begin the selection process.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have further questions.

Many thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Kind regards

Alice

Alice E. Jansen

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 Development Studies
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