[NCUC-DISCUSS] [NCUC-EC] NCUC Appointments for 2014

Thu Jan 2 15:31:55 CET 2014

Hi

Happy new year everyone.  NCUC will have a very busy calendar in the two
months before the Singapore meeting, so we really need to get the
foundational items out of the way so we can proceed.  One of these is
filling the positions mentioned previously (see below).  It'd be really
helpful to receive ASAP more expressions of interest, or suggestions of
others (with their prior agreement of course) who would be interested and
well suited to play any of these roles.

Thanks much

Bill

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From: William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
Date: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Subject: [NCUC-EC] NCUC Appointments for 2014
To: "ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org" <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
Cc: NCUC EC <ncuc-ec at lists.ncuc.org>

Hi

One of the first tasks the newly elected EC will need to take care of is
filling key appointments to various external positions.  As these require a
fair amount of ICANN experience and knowledge in order to effectively
advance NCUC’s interest, in most cases (save the first) it seems they’ve
historically been filled through targeted outreach to members known to be
ready to be ‘plug and play’.   Moreover, some of the positions have
incumbents in them who may wish to serve another term.

Nevertheless, there’s no reason we can’t do an open call for expressions of
interest in order to broaden engagement and the pool of names the EC draws
on.   So if anyone is interested in being considered for any of the
following, or has suggestions of others who’d be interested, please send me
a note offline.  Of course, if people prefer to discuss options here too,
fine, but it’s good to be sensitive to previously expressed concerns about
mail volume...

*We really need to fill these slots in the next two weeks, earlier if
possible (especially the NomCom one), so if you are interested or have
suggestions please be in touch ASAP.  *

As this will anyway be a longish message, it’s probably better if I don’t
write a book here on each of the positions.  So I’ll stick to the basic
info, and if anyone has any questions they can be addressed in follow-up
discussion.

*1 NCUC Rep. to the ICANN Nominating Committee *
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom

The NomCom appoints people to positions in the ICANN board, the GNSO
Council, and other parts of the org.  This is perhaps the most time
consuming of the slots, but it’s also a very interesting and important one,
and it includes supported travel to the meetings.  It is also our most
pressing appointment; Rafik Dammak was our Nomcom rep but of course was
recently elected NCSG Chair and needs to hand these responsibilities off to
someone ASAP.  Moreover, the 2014 Nomcom already began its work at the
Buenos Aires meeting, so whomever we appoint will need to dive in, merge
into the stream and get going quickly.    We previously discussed NomCom
when reappointing Rafik in June; for reference see the thread from
http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2013-June/015094.html

.  Our bylaws specify that the EC is to appoint the rep by majority vote,
with at least four members voting.

*2 NCUC Reps. to the NCSG Executive Committee *
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Committees-2013

http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg

The EC does admin type stuff, particularly handling new member
applications.  Until the recent NCSG election, Robin Gross was NCSG Chair
and Milton Mueller and Rafik were our two reps.   As Rafik was switching to
Chair at the end of the BA meeting and we needed continuity and
representation, the outgoing EC appointed Robin to Rafik’s old slot to
serve alongside Milton.

*2* *NCUC Reps. to the NCSG Policy Committee*
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Committees-2013

The PC is the vehicle for our policy engagement in the GNSO Council,
alongside NPOC in NCSG.  In 2013 our reps were Avri Doria and Nuno Garcia.
 Avri was recently elected to the GNSO Council so is already on the PC in
another capacity.

You may also note at the above website, there’s also supposed to be a NCSG
Financial Committee with a NCUC rep, but as far as I know it’s been
dormant, as funds are raised at the constituency level instead.  Should it
ever be needed, presumably our Treasurer should be the rep to it.

*1 NCUC Rep. to the Public Interest Registry*
 http://pir.org/about-us/get-to-know-us/advisory-council/

PIR manages .org etc. and is a long time financial and political supporter
of NCUC.  We appoint a rep to its .org Advisory Council; Robin is currently
in this position as well.    I understand this has not involved a lot of
coordination of late, and indeed PIR’s website still calls us by our old
name, the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency (NCDNHC), but as
with some other slots/functions we might want to reboot a bit.  Our bylaws
specify that the EC is to appoint the rep by majority vote, with at least
four members voting.

*2 NCUC Reps. to the GNSO’s Standing Committee on Improvements*
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosci/4.+Members

Ed Morris kindly wrote this paragraph:  The SCI is a fairly
unique committee in that it is 1) a standing committee, 2) run on a full
consensus model and 3) deals with procedural and structural, rather than
substantive, issues. As an example, an issue under current consideration is
a proposal to allow for e-mail voting within the GNSO. The NCUC has two
representative positions, both a primary and an alternate slot.  In 2013 we
had Amr and (now on Council) and Nuno as an alternate.  NCUC appointees
would be expected to attend SCI calls (usually monthly) and participate in
mailing list deliberations. Only one appointee, primary or alternate, may
take part in each consensus call. Coordination between both appointees, and
with the other noncommercial representatives, is an essential component of
the positions.

*Intra-EC*

Finally and parenthetically, the EC will also need to make some internal
appointments. For ex, our bylaws say we are to have a Secretary Treasurer
who must be approved by a majority vote of the EC with at least three
members voting.  Milton’s always been the Treasurer because he has NCUC’s
bank account, but he’s not been doing the ‘Secretary’ piece and it could be
helpful to separate and fill it.  We also need coordinators for the four
EC/member functional Teams http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams

and the Bylaws Revision Committee
http://www.ncuc.org/bylaws-revision-committee/

Thanks,

Bill

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William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org

william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
  www.williamdrake.org

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