Re: [alac] Selecting Our Successors

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, but when you take away even the modicum of direct 
control that people might appear to have, what's the point?

--Wendy

At 07:01 PM 1/25/2006, Bret Fausett wrote:
> I've been giving some thought to the creation of the RALOs and how 
> they will select our successors. After a lot of consideration, I've 
> come to the conclusion that "voting" will create levels of 
> complexity and bureaucracy that will be detrimental to the RALO-ALAC 
> effort. The problem of how to weight and count votes of different 
> organizations, with differing membership structures, while 
> preventing capture of the regional ALAC seats, is not easily 
> solvable. I can't think of any light-weight, objective mechanism for 
> addressing the problems with votes.
>
> Accordingly, I'd like to propose the following for discussion:
>
> (1) The ALSs propose a willing person or persons from their region 
> to sit on the ALAC, forward an application containing the person's 
> relevant background to the other ALSs, and then discuss the names on 
> a private RALO mailing list. If they agree on the person or persons 
> who should fill the open seat(s), they send the names to ICANN, 
> which appoints them to the ALAC.
>
> (2) If they don't agree on the person or persons who should fill the 
> open seat(s), they send the names under discussion, with their 
> applications, to the ICANN Nominating Committee. With the submission 
> to the NomComm, the RALO indicates which ALSs support which persons. 
> The Nominating Committee is provided background information on each 
> of the ALSs, including its mission, organization, and size of the 
> membership. The Nominating Committee must select someone from the 
> list provided by the RALO.
>
> That's it. No voting, and we build on existing structures rather 
> than create a new voting structure or procedure. I think it would 
> work well. Let me know your thoughts.
>
>                 Bret

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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
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