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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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>M<br><br><div>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:13 +0100<br>> From: malcolm@linx.net<br>> To: jordan@internetnz.net.nz; wp1@icann.org; accountability-cross-community@icann.org<br>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [WP1] updated paper: Recall of the ICANN Board<br>> <br>> <br>> On 23/07/2015 11:18, Jordan Carter wrote:<br>> > See my edits in the files beginning with 2015-07-23.<br>> <br>> One comment: I thought the general view in Paris was that NomCom would<br>> not nominate members of an interim Board. I doubt the practicality of<br>> requiring it to do so.<br>> <br>> That seems to have changed; perhaps I missed some discussion. Or<br>> misperceived the general view.<br>> <br>> Requiring NomCom to put up alternates at the AGM creates the "people<br>> standing in the shadows waiting for a chance" that were mentioned as a<br>> prospect to be avoided, and was accepted as a reason for not requiring<br>> SOs and ACs to nominate alternates with every appointment.<br>> <br>> Moreover, how will NomCom find people willing to commit to drop<br>> everything and become an interim director in the unlikely event of a<br>> Board spill, knowing that it is highly unlikely this will ever come to<br>> pass?<br>> <br>> It is surely much easier to ask someone "Will you agree to serve as a<br>> director now?" than "Will you agree to serve as a director in an<br>> unspecified number of months, should some very unlikely event come to<br>> pass?".<br>> <br>> For these reasons, I think that excusing NomCom from nominating interim<br>> directors is a better choice.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Malcolm Hutty | tel: +44 20 7645 3523<br>> Head of Public Affairs | Read the LINX Public Affairs blog<br>> London Internet Exchange | http://publicaffairs.linx.net/<br>> <br>> London Internet Exchange Ltd<br>> 21-27 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY<br>> <br>> Company Registered in England No. 3137929<br>> Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br>> Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<br>> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community<br></div></div> </div></body>
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