[NCUC-EC] Fwd: NomCom changes

[Johan Helsingius]

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Subject: 	NomCom changes
Date: 	Fri, 31 May 2024 14:41:19 +0000
From: 	DiBiase, Gregory <dibiase at amazon.com>
To: 	aheineman at godaddy.com <aheineman at godaddy.com>, Lori Schulman 
<lschulman at inta.org>, Cole, Mason (POR) <MCole at perkinscoie.com>, Johan 
Helsingius <julf at Julf.com>, sdemetriou at verisign.com 
<sdemetriou at verisign.com>, philippe.fouquart at orange.com 
<philippe.fouquart at orange.com>
CC: 	Steve Chan <steve.chan at icann.org>, gnso-secs at icann.org 
<gnso-secs at icann.org>



Dear Ashley, Julf, Lori, Mason, Philippe, and Samantha,

I am writing to you all in your roles as Chairs of Stakeholder Groups or 
Constituencies that appoint delegates to ICANN’s Nominating Committee 
(NomCom).

You may recall that the NomCom2 Review produced 27 recommendations, 
several of which relate to the composition and terms of the NomCom. In 
order to effectuate these particular recommendations, the ICANN Board 
approved Standard Bylaws Amendments in Articles 8, 12, and 27.

The Bylaws amendments made no change to the number and nature of 
delegates from the GNSO (i.e., 1 each from the RySG, RrSG, ISPCP, IPC, 
NCSG, and 2 from the BC), though the length of terms were extended to 
two years (see Section 8.3 of the Bylaws). However, from Article 27, in 
order to, “effectuate the introduction of the two-year terms and support 
the goal of staggering delegate terms…”, three of the GNSO delegates 
shall serve a one-year term. ARTICLE 27 TRANSITION ARTICLE states that 
the GNSO is responsible for determining which three of the seven 
delegates shall initially serve one-year terms.

Unfortunately, no guidance was provided on how to identify the three of 
seven GNSO delegates to serve one-year terms. For reference, the ALAC 
was also in the position of having to identify a subset of delegates to 
serve one-year terms. They elected to rely on random selection during a 
live call.

The GNSO may want to rely on a similarly simple approach. An important 
point in considering the approach is that the level of representation on 
the NomCom is not affected by the term-length. However, the SG/Cs with 
one-year terms will have to replace those delegates after one year 
rather than two.

*Question: Do you believe there would be any objections from your 
groups, and potentially delegates that you have already identified, to 
proceeding with a simple path forward in which we randomly select three 
of seven GNSO delegates to serve one-year terms?*

If you believe that there may be concerns (e.g., we may want to avoid 
having the one-year terms concentrated in particular areas), please 
share them with Council leadership no later than 31 May 2024.

If however there are no concerns, Council leadership can perform the 
random selection process with staff or if you prefer, on a Zoom call 
with all of you.

Thanks,

Greg DiBiase, GNSO Chair