<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I agree. It does not make sense to ask NomCom to nominate alternates. Cherine<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jul 2015, at 15:23, Marilyn Cade <<a href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com" class="">marilynscade@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I agree with not asking the NomCom to put up alternates. Spilling the Board should be so exceptional and a smaller exe board should be able to then launch a process, which could result in both elections and in appointments.<div class="">M<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:13 +0100<br class="">> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:malcolm@linx.net" class="">malcolm@linx.net</a><br class="">> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" class="">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:wp1@icann.org" class="">wp1@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" class="">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a><br class="">> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [WP1] updated paper: Recall of the ICANN Board<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> On 23/07/2015 11:18, Jordan Carter wrote:<br class="">> > See my edits in the files beginning with 2015-07-23.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> One comment: I thought the general view in Paris was that NomCom would<br class="">> not nominate members of an interim Board. I doubt the practicality of<br class="">> requiring it to do so.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> That seems to have changed; perhaps I missed some discussion. Or<br class="">> misperceived the general view.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Requiring NomCom to put up alternates at the AGM creates the "people<br class="">> standing in the shadows waiting for a chance" that were mentioned as a<br class="">> prospect to be avoided, and was accepted as a reason for not requiring<br class="">> SOs and ACs to nominate alternates with every appointment.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Moreover, how will NomCom find people willing to commit to drop<br class="">> everything and become an interim director in the unlikely event of a<br class="">> Board spill, knowing that it is highly unlikely this will ever come to<br class="">> pass?<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> It is surely much easier to ask someone "Will you agree to serve as a<br class="">> director now?" than "Will you agree to serve as a director in an<br class="">> unspecified number of months, should some very unlikely event come to<br class="">> pass?".<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> For these reasons, I think that excusing NomCom from nominating interim<br class="">> directors is a better choice.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Malcolm Hutty | tel: +44 20 7645 3523<br class="">> Head of Public Affairs | Read the LINX Public Affairs blog<br class="">> London Internet Exchange |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://publicaffairs.linx.net/" class="">http://publicaffairs.linx.net/</a><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> London Internet Exchange Ltd<br class="">> 21-27 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Company Registered in England No. 3137929<br class="">> Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> _______________________________________________<br class="">> Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org" class="">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community" class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a><br class=""></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Calibri; 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