[CWG-Stewardship] PTI Board Composition

[Gomes, Chuck]

Avri,

It is not clear to me that the NomCom's mission and makeup is the right fit to appoint PTI Directors, and particularly a majority of them.

I haven't tested this idea with others yet, but I kind of like the idea of having one each of the ICANN Directors elected by the ccNSO and GNSO serve on the PTI Board.  In an ICANN membership structure, the ccNSO or GNSO could remove their appointed directors if they were not accountability.

Chuck

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From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 8:49 AM
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Subject: [CWG-Stewardship] PTI Board Composition

Hi,

I would like to put a proposal on the table on the composition of the PTI Board.

Specifically

On 22-May-15 18:32, Avri Doria wrote:
> * On the PTI Board, I believe it should be minimal, so instead of 
> having a balanced multstakeholder set of individuals, it should have a majority
> of representatives (s)elected by a multistakeholder modality.   e.g 1
> ICANN Staff, 1 PTI Staff, 3 selected by ICANN Nomcom.

Personally, I propose:

1 ICANN Staff as selected by ICANN President and endorsed by ICANN Board
1 PTI Staff, typically the Sr. Officer of the PTI, i.e its President or Executive Director or their designee
3 Nomcom Selections
various liaisons as agreed after cross operational community discussions

This PTI Board would have fewer people in it than the PTI staff has, but would be large enough for some degree of diversity.

While in a formal sense, this would seem to be an outside Board, given that the majority is picked by the ICANN community instead of the ICANN staff, it is an insider board when considered from the perspective of ICANN as a multistakeholder run organization.

It avoids the problem of deciding that one stakeholder type is more appropriate that another, but allows the community on an annual basis to decide which skills and knowledge are most important using a well established ICANN method.  The skills and knowledge may vary over time, including considerations such as operational experience,  financial skill, international legal knowledge,  security capability, root zone operator perspective, community policy perspective, DNS protocol or system design expertise.  Those selected by the ICANN Nomcom could be community insiders or outside experts, as decided by each Nomcom according to the perceived needs at that time. The set of considerations and needs would be decided on by the ICANN Nomcom in consultation with ICANN Board & Staff, the multistakeholder community and PTI staff, according to Nomcom's normal current and future practices.

In terms of the current discussions, it allows us to defer certain decisions, such as which skill and knowledge categories are most appropriate until they can address future understandings.  It avoid having the CWG micromanage the future of the PTI Board, yet leaves it under the community's control.


thanks
avri

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