[NCUC-DISCUSS] URGENT - Time sensitive What is your view on on the question of rebalancing the Nominating Committee (NomCom)

[Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele]

I believe NCUC can consolidate the response with the NCSG's joint
recommendations.

This will allow us to go out on a united front as non-commercial.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 1:40 PM farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Benjamin,
>
> Not only do we need to respond, we should reach out to our friends and
> colleagues and tell them what the problem is. See the responses below:
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 1:57 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear NCUC members,
>>
>> Good day and I hope your week is going well.
>> Thank you for participating in the NCUC Readout session.  As discussed in
>> the meeting today, please share  your response to these questions to gather
>> our community views.
>>
>> ICANN Board Chair Tripti Sinha is  requesting feedback from your
>> respective community groups on the question of rebalancing the
>> Nominating Committee (NomCom) by **30 June 2023**. As noted in the
>> letter, the ICANN Board wishes to engage with the community to
>> understand the community’s views on this topic. The Board is specifically
>> seeking input on the following questions:
>>
>> 1. What does it mean to have a balanced NomCom at a point in time?
>> For example, what criteria would you apply to measure or assess whether the
>> NomCom is balanced? And further, how can one test whether or not the
>> NomCom is balanced?
>>
>
>
> A balanced NomCom means that the noncommercial and commercial stakeholder
> groups as predicted have the same number of delegates. For example, if the
> Commercial Group has three delegates, the noncommercial group should have
> three delegates. This is the least that can be done when rebalancing.It
> should be remodeled based on GNSO council composition.
>
>
>
>> 2. Do you support the view that the current composition of the NomCom needs
>> to be rebalanced? Please explain why or why not.
>>
> Yes it needs to be rebalanced because as we have argued the
> noncommercials have fewer delegates compared to the commercial stakeholder
> group. In every ICANN group, the commercial and noncommercial stakeholder
> groups should have equal number of delegates, irrespective of how many
> internal constituencies they each have.
> Also the advisory committees either should be voting delegates or
> non-voting delegates. Perhaps because ICANN is privately led and the chair
> of GAC is a liaison on the board the nonvoting nomcom (which they have
> never appointed) might make sense but it is unclear why some advisory
> committees are voting and some are not.
>
>>
>> 3. How frequently does the balance need to be measured or assessed?
>>
> After rebalancing, if the review of various ICANN structures lead to
> structural changes (which it rarely does)  then we need to assess whether
> it should affect delegation on Nomcom.
>
>>
>> 4. How do you suggest that the NomCom’s composition be rebalanced?
>>
> Same number of delegates from Commercial and Noncommercial stakeholders
> group. If CSG has 3 delegates, NCSG has to have 3 delegates too. We don't
> necessarily ask for increasing the number of our delegates but we ask to
> reconsider the number of delegates CSG can have.
>
>
>
> 5. Who should conduct this work, and how should it be conducted?
>>
> The board should follow the third party reviewer recommendation.
>
>
>> 6. How would your community group prioritize consideration of this issue
>> within your planning efforts?
>>
>
> This has been a priority issue for NCUC and NCSG since a long time. We are
> directly affected.
>
>>
>> Additional background on the work to date on this topic, including by the
>> NomCom Review Implementation Working Group that
>> was set up to implement the outcomes of the Second NomCom Review (see
>> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence
>>
>>
>> <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence> for each of the
>> letters sent to all 21 SOAC leaders). In addition, on 25 May 2023, the
>> Chair of the Board’s Organizational Effectiveness Committee, Katrina
>> Sataki, and members of ICANN org’s Reviews Support & Accountability team
>> gave a presentation to the GNSO Council that covered the present
>> structure of NomCom, a brief history of the rebalancing matter and
>> forthcoming actions. As such, you may find the presentation
>> <
>> https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/presentation/presentation-gnso-council-
>> nomcom-rebalancing-revised-25may23-en.pdf> and
>> the recording
>> <
>> https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/7pSQ37mSB5wGz8-msQS2PDpzhQ6VdJQISm2SYmWKwfFMWFM_Z6FdMsFiipNyIV-E.J55mm5SBjoZJS9d9?startTime=1684990882000
>> > (from
>> 00:14:10 - 00:31:38) helpful in discussing any planned feedback with
>> your members.
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