[council] NCA Assignments

[Tim Ruiz]

I don't agree with this process. Besides questions about randomness I
think we just need
a liitle more time. Unfortunately I will likely miss the call today.
Having some routine tests
that are taking longer than expected.


Tim
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [council] NCA Assignments
> From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
> Date: Thu, October 08, 2009 7:11 am
> To: Council GNSO <council at gnso.icann.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Not having heard, and proceeding to the final step,
> 
> >>
> >> d. If the GNSO Council Houses and/or their respective Stakeholder  
> >> Groups are unable to reach agreement, then the new, inexperienced  
> >> NCA will take the non-voting Council seat and random selection will  
> >> be used to assign the other two NCAs to Houses before the Council  
> >> meeting on 8 October 2009.
> >
> > Note: If I need to do a random selection, I will use the Wednesday 7  
> > Oct Powerball Lottery number (http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_numbers.asp 
> > ) as seed to the  IETF RFC3797 random selection algorithm with the  
> > names ordered alphabetic by first name.; ie. Olga, Terry.  Doing so,  
> > however, will result in at least one of the NCAs being given an  
> > assignment that is contrary to their expressed interests.
> 
> The lottery number for yesterday was: 2 20 21 38 50
> 
> Using alphabetical order for the picks, the names are ordered:
> 
> 1. Olga
> 2. Terry
> 
> Also using alphabetical order for the assignments,
> 
> 1st name picked goes to Contracted Parties House
> 2nd name picked goes to Non Contracted Parties House
> 
> the RFC3797 program run (included below) picks #2 first
> 
> meaning:
> 
> Terry is assigned to Contracted
> Olga is assigned to Non Contracted
> Andrei, by motion, is non-voting Council seat.
> 
> a.
> 
> Run of the RFC3797 program
> 
> Type size of pool:
> (or 'exit' to exit) 2
> Type number of items to be selected:
> (or 'exit' to exit) 1
> Approximately 1.1 bits of entropy needed.
> 
> Type #1 randomness or 'end' followed by new line.
> Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up
> to 16 x.y format reals.
> 2 20 21 38 50
> 2 20 21 38 50
> Type #2 randomness or 'end' followed by new line.
> Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up
> to 16 x.y format reals.
> end
> Key is:
>   2.20.21.38.50./
> index        hex value of MD5        div  selected
>   1  EFC9E973E94E5D3BB70D8CDE6C0EDBCD   2  ->  2 <-
> 
> Done, type any character to exit.
> 
> 
> On 8 Oct 2009, at 10:05, Avri Doria wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have not heard from any of the other SG representative on the  
> > subject of NCA assignment.
> >
> > I will run the lottery shortly unless I hear that people have  
> > reached agreement.
> >
> > Using alphabetical order for the picks, the names will be ordered:
> >
> > 1. Olga
> > 2. Terry
> >
> > Using alphabetical order for the assignments,
> >
> > 1st name picked goes to Contracted Parties House
> > 2nd name picked goes to Non Contracted Parties House
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > a.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8 Oct 2009, at 00:53, Avri Doria wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks Kristina.
> >>
> >> Assuming the NCSG agrees, it remains for the Contracted Parties  
> >> House to agree or not to the assignment of Andrei.  If they do, I  
> >> assume the assignment of Olga as the non voting just falls out.
> >>
> >> I am in the UK, and about to go to sleep after a longs day's  
> >> flight. I will hold off running the random selection until I hear  
> >> back from folks tomorrow.
> >>
> >> a.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7 Oct 2009, at 16:08, Rosette, Kristina wrote:
> >>
> >>> All,
> >>>
> >>> On behalf of the Commercial Stakeholder Group, I write to advise  
> >>> that Terry's preference to be assigned to the Non-Contracted  
> >>> Parties House is acceptable to us.  I communicated this  
> >>> information yesterday to the NCSG point person on the issue.  As  
> >>> no other SG has yet posted any assignment-related information, we  
> >>> are posting to the Council list in the hope of facilitating  
> >>> Council completion of the assignment process in the previously  
> >>> agreed upon timeframe.
> >>>
> >>> K
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >