[NCUC-DISCUSS] SSAC Comments on the Independent Review of the ICANN Nominating Committee

[Robert Guerra]

A short note to the NCUC to inform you that the SSAC Comments on the 
Independent Review of the ICANN Nominating Committee have just been 
published.


https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ssac2018-12-07may18-en.pdf

There are 3 key comments, they are below.

regards

Robert
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1. The SSAC concurs with the full set of important findings and 
recommendations in this
report and hopes the NomCom leadership will act quickly on these. We are 
pleased that
the overall tenor of these recommendations emphasizes process stability, 
transparency,
accountability, and other ICANN values.

2. Addressing recommendations that would affect the SSAC directly, the 
SSAC notes
Recommendation 9 from the report which states, “All NomCom members 
should be fully
participating and voting members, except for NomCom leadership.” The 
SSAC
understands that to convert its representative to the NomCom to a voting 
member in order
to fully participate in all NomCom activities would require a change to 
the Bylaws and
that the SSAC representative would then also be subject to the same 
requirements as other voting members,
including the same term limits. This change needs additional
analysis and consideration by the SSAC and others who would be affected 
by this
change.

3.  We believe one recommendation could be further strengthened to 
better align the
NomCom with ICANN’s values of transparency and accountability. 
Recommendation 13 states:

Recommendation 13: Publish a “Process Diagram” and codify key 
elements of
the NomCom process. Each year, the NomCom should be required to 
highlight
and explain process changes to the ICANN community in an open session.


Simply “explaining” process changes does not provide the ICANN 
community with an
accountability measure to check and balance the proposed processes that 
the community
finds to be outside acceptable norms. We would like to see a stronger 
mechanism
recommended that would allow the ICANN community to assert some control 
in this
area. At a minimum, a means to block major changes that a majority of 
the community
finds problematic and a process to reconcile them. We note that any 
process without
some sort of accountability measure does not fit into ICANN’s values.



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Robert Guerra
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