[NCUC-DISCUSS] Nom Com

romina florencia Cabrera romicabrera83 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 23:18:16 CEST 2020


Thanks. Best regards. A disposal forever.

El dom., 2 ago. 2020 a las 18:17, Tomslin Samme-Nlar (<mesumbeslin at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> Thanks for the update.
> It is hard to tell (at least to me) from the report whether the impact
> COVID19 has on the process is due to lost time as members adapted to
> online-only toolsets, and therefore are unable to reach consensus on time;
> or if it is due to the online tools not being adequate to get the job done
> on time. Could you clarify this please?
>
> Cheers
> Tomslin
>
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 03:34, Wolfgang Kleinwächter <
> wolfgang at kleinwaechter.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi Farzahneh, Michael, Milton etc.
>> The whole 2020 NomCom process is online sind February. No difference to
>> the rest of the ICANN Community. So far, the Online process and the 20+
>> Zoom three hours meetings we had workd fine. We have now excellent short
>> lists. No problem. Everything is very good. So far.
>>
>> With my personal experiences of seven ICANN NomComs, I expressed my
>> sceptisism that I have doubts that a consensus can be reached online in the
>> remaining time. The last mile is the most controversial. If you have four
>> or five equally qualified candidates - and this is the case this year - it
>> needs a lot of consultations, conversations, communications to pick the
>> final two with the agreement of all 16 voting members. My "scepticism" is
>> very personal. I hope we can achieve a result. This would be great. But I
>> am not sure.
>>
>> I will report back as soon as we have news.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
>>
>> Michael Karanicolas <mkaranicolas at gmail.com> hat am 2. August 2020 um
>> 18:24 geschrieben:
>>
>> I agree - this seems very strange. All other ICANN-related travel or in
>> person events seem to have been moved online. Why is this any different?
>>
>> Michael Karanicolas
>> Wikimedia Fellow
>> Yale Law School
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 11:56 AM Mueller, Milton L < milton at gatech.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Why does Nomcom insist on in-person meetings at this time? It seems
>> fabulously absurd to me. We’ve all learned that you can bring a group
>> together virtually for productive discussions; you can offer classes, you
>> can have meetings, what is the problem with doing it virtually?
>>
>>
>>
>> To be paralyzed by the inability to have in-person meetings during a
>> pandemic baffles me – am I missing something? What’s stopping you from
>> dumping the in-person meeting part and doing it virtually?
>>
>>
>>
>> --MM
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> *On Behalf Of
>> *Wolfgang Kleinwächter
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 30, 2020 2:51 PM
>> *To:* NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>> *Subject:* [NCUC-DISCUSS] Nom Com
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>>
>>
>> this is the next interim report about progress work within the NomCom
>> 2020 as the NCUC Rep.
>>
>>
>>
>> Based on around 40 virtual one hour interviews with candidates, done by
>> small teams of NomCom members, we had four rounds of virtual discussions in
>> July 2020 and produced for each of the seven positions shortlists.  For the
>> two positions in the ICANN Board we have now seven candidates on the
>> shortlist. For the positions in the PTI Board, GNSO, CNSO and ALAC we have
>> a smaller shortlists.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, Covid-19 has disorganised our plans. We have discussed options,
>> how to proceed. The bylaws calls for a final selection 8 weeks before the
>> Annual Meeting, which would be mid August. At this moment it is unclear how
>> we can finish this years work within the given time frame and without a
>> final round of live interviews with shortlisted candidates and a F2F
>> meeting. There are some ideas, to create hubs and to have a decentralized
>> process, but at this stage, I have serious doubts that we can reach
>> consensus intime under this extreme circumstances.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>>
>> Wolfgang
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