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

[farzaneh badii]

Where are NCSG's joint recommendations? NCUC can reinforce the message.



Farzaneh


On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 2:44 PM Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <
muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> *Caleb Ogundele*
> Email: muyiwacaleb at gmail.com
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