[NCUC-DISCUSS] Nomcom

[farzaneh badii]

Tapani,

Transparency is about public accountability. It does not mean that all
managerial decisions must be carried out in public. In appointments, the
selection committee will be discussing candidate skills and qualifications.
This is a sensitive area, and it is typical both inside and outside of
ICANN that these conversations take place within a cone of silence to
protect the dignity of candidates. We have taken our decision now, and I
was preparing to email both candidates privately to provide them with
feedback on their applications. If the candidates consent, we can make
these emails public, but it would be understandable if they preferred
otherwise. I will, however, email this list in due course to announce the
selected candidate and the reasons why the selection committee felt like
they were best placed to represent the NCUC on the Nominating Committee.

During the time that I have been the Chair of NCUC, I have worked fiercely
to bring greater transparency to our community regarding available
resources, the rationale for our selections and appointments, and called
upon the expertise of Michael Karanikolas when drafting our operating
procedures to ensure we have given transparency issues appropriate
consideration. I find it, frankly, insulting that you would insinuate we
have been anything but transparent here given our track record — a track
record, I note reluctantly, that you as Chair of the NCSG have not yourself
practiced.

Best

Farzaneh

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <
ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> While I'm happy to see two great candidates and good discussion
> about NomCom, there's one side issue I find disconcerting, namely
> how NCUC EC plans to make its decision.
>
> I may have misunderstood something, but looking at
>
> http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-ec/2017-July/004061.html
>
> it seems they plan to discuss this in private emails.
>
> Transparency is one of our core values, moving EC deliberations to
> private emails is something that should not be done lightly if at all,
> certainly not without some extraordinary justification. I would very
> much hate to see it become normal, routine procedure whenever EC or
> the Chair feel like it.
>
> There may well be circumstances where confidential discussions are
> needed, but they should be rare, explicitly justified and documented,
> and even then they should still be recorded and records kept somewhere
> where they can be accessed, e.g., by the Ombudsman if need be.
>
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