[gnso-travel-dt] the original ad-hoc process used - and a thought

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,


As I am sure people remember, the process used for Cairo involved each  
of the constituencies presenting a list of 0-3 people according to any  
criteria they choose to use.  The first person on each constituencies  
list was automatically qualified for travel support.
The second step was for a representative of each of the constituencies  
to participate in an ad-hoc team to figure out how to  distribute the  
rest of budgeted travel slots.  This list was then voted on by the  
council.
Several people have argued that it was not legitimate for the council  
to take such a vote when some of those voting could be chosen for  
travel support.  While I disagree with the claims of illegitimacy, I  
could be wrong and it is worth getting an opinion from legal counsel  
on this.
An alternative I considered at the time and one which I planned to use  
had we not been able to accommodate everyone from all of the  
constituency's lists or if contention had been too great  was to use a  
transparent and verifiable random selection method as documented in  
RFC 3797.  This sort of process is cleaner and easier then one that  
involves a external selection committee that may or may not be  
considered unbiased (do we keep everyone who knows anything about  
ICANN or who registers a domain name off this panel?) or a process  
based on need , which to be reasonable would require some sort of  
verification stronger then the famous giggle test.
a.