[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] RDS PDP WG Leadership Team - Deadline for objections Wed 10 Feb at 18.00 UTC

[James Galvin]

This is not an objection but I do want to repeat the comment I made 
during the meeting we just had.

First, I’m not objecting because I appreciate that we operate with a 
consensus driven process and this call for any objections is a tool in 
that process.

However, the concern I stated during the meeting is that when the poll 
was created it was never clearly stated that it was going to be used as 
a consensus judging tool to select the leadership.

Less than 1 third of the working group members responded to the 
opportunity to indicate support for leadership candidates while almost 2 
thirds responded to the opportunity to identify desirable 
characteristics.  If you just look at the numbers clearly the “top 
4” could change dramatically if more people had participated in the 
poll, and I have to believe that more would have participated if they 
had known it would be important to do so.

In the interest of full disclosure, I did not participate in the 
candidate support poll while I did participate in the leadership 
characteristics poll.

It is essential that “formal questions” be clearly stated as such so 
that working group members have an opportunity to fully evaluate the 
consequences of their actions (or non-actions).

Thanks,

Jim





On 9 Feb 2016, at 12:42, Marika Konings wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Those on the RDS PDP WG call today, agreed to confirm Chuck Gomes as 
> Chair of the RDS PDP WG.
>
> It was also agreed that WG members should be given an opportunity to 
> indicate any concerns you may have with moving forward with the top 
> four candidates that were identified in the poll, namely Chuck Gomes, 
> Susan Kawaguchi, Michele Neylon and David Cake (see 
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-STDRVQ3Q/) as the leadership 
> team of the RDS PDP WG, with the leadership team tasked to organise 
> themselves in the form of chair/vice-chairs or co-chairs.
>
> If you have any objections to this approach, please make your 
> objection know on the mailing list by Wednesday 10 February at 18.00 
> UTC as a desire was expressed on the call to move forward with the 
> normal course of business as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marika
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