[NCUC-DISCUSS] NomCom Review ++

Raoul Plommer plommer at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 13:21:24 CET 2016


>
> With nearly four billion Internet users there is no way back to
> "elections". And with 1000+ new gTLDs the balance in a GNSO, designed when
> we had not more than 20+ gTLDs, gets rocked.
>

Apparently <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Large_Advisory_Committee> ALAC
was created "with the purpose of providing a viable mechanism for
participation by a significant number of active individual users of the
Internet from around the world". I think there is too much overlap between
ALAC and the NCSG and it makes them both weaker, starting from our own
members having conflicting schedules. In the pre-transition period, that
could be justified as the groups were supposed to do different things.
Hasn't that also been changed now? I think ALAC/NCSG is a flaw in the
ICANN's governance model itself. We are suffering from a lack of power to
effectively uphold human rights for those four billion users.

How is it that in the Empowered Community the non-commercial interests have
only 1/29 voting power? I'm presuming, that the CSG regurlarly gets 2/5
votes, that the GNSO has in the EC. I couldn't find ALAC's bylaws either,
could someone point them out to me?



> Against this background, the discussion on a NomCom review could be a good
> door opener for the "Grand Re-Design".
>

Yes, it's also an excellent opportunity to start levelling the playing
field before the needed grand restructuring begins and we should make sure,
we'll come up with as many valid arguments as possible to increase our
share of seats in the NomCom. With 1/7 share of the seats, we should have
plenty. I tried to bring out mine, but that might just be more fitting to
bring up later, in the context of the bigger restructuring.

-Raoul
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