FW: [council] NCSG RT endorsements, diversity

[Gomes, Chuck]

In response to Bill's suggestion below, I would like to encourage SGs to
review the qualifications of George Asare Sakyi for the SSR RT and
discuss them with your members to determine whether your SG would
support adding him to the slate (i.e., sending a slate of five
candidates instead of four to the Selectors).  Also, if it seems
desirable, we could try to arrange a call with him to further evaluate
his qualifications.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
On Behalf Of William Drake
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 2:53 AM
To: GNSO Council List
Subject: [council] NCSG RT endorsements, diversity


Hi,

NCSG endorses:

WHOIS:  Kim G. Von Arx (Canada/Switzerland)

SSR:	David Cake (Australia)



BTW, our SSR endorsee pool comprises three USian men and one Australian
man.  This obviously fails both the geographic and gender diversity
tests we approved:


3. In making their selections, stakeholder groups should give due
consideration to the following diversity objectives:
*Unless the applicant pool does not allow, no more than half of the
GNSO's nominees should come from the same geographical region; and 
*Unless the applicant pool does not allow, the GNSO's nominees should
not all be of the same gender.


We could somewhat improve the blend by following the diversity procedure
and voting to add to the pool George Asare Sakyi.  People might want to
review his application and talk to their SGs before the Council call.

The WHOIS endorsee pool comprises two USian women, one Canadian man, and
one USian man.  So on gender diversity we're good, on geographic not so
much.  However, there's nothing that can be done about it given the
applicant pool, seven USian and one non, who's already in.

Going forward, we might want to encourage more diverse folks from our
SGs to apply.

Cheers,

Bill