[council] Review of the GNSO job description for NomCom

Tomslin Samme-Nlar mesumbeslin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 20:43:59 UTC 2021


Hi Flip,

I would argue that the potential risk of a candidate with no apparent
connection refraining from playing an active role is a low one. I support
the proposal to prefer non-affiliated candidates and if none came forward,
pick from the affiliated applicants.

Tomslin


On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 18:07, Flip Petillion via council <
council at gnso.icann.org> wrote:

> All:
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> I am puzzled about the proposed addition ‘preferences will be given to
> candidates who are not affiliated with a SO/AC or GNSO Stakeholder Group or
> Constituency’, especially as you propose to delete that an applicant must
> act in the larger public interest, which is a key goal of ICANN.
> Can Council Leadership articulate with greater precision and detail the
> precise nature of their concerns?  Also, it seems a rarity to find someone
> with the appropriate depth of experience within ICANN needed to be
> effective at Council who is also unaffiliated with any of ICANN’s various
> groups.  Is there a list of such unaffiliated persons from which to draw
> future nominations?  The IPC is not aware of any such list.
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> Isn’t there a risk that appointed candidates with no apparent connection,
> refrain from playing an active role ? Are we not better served if members
> show up and actively engage ?
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> Thanks
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> Best
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> Flip
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> Flip Petillion
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> *From: *council <council-bounces at gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Olga
> Cavalli via council <council at gnso.icann.org>
> *Reply to: *Olga Cavalli <olgacavalli at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, 17 September 2021 at 22:29
> *To: *Marie Pattullo - AIM <marie.pattullo at aim.be>
> *Cc: *"gnso-secs at icann.org" <gnso-secs at icann.org>, "council at gnso.icann.org"
> <council at gnso.icann.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [council] Review of the GNSO job description for NomCom
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> Hi Philippe,
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> I agree with the changes included in the document you shared and  also
> agree with those changes suggested by Marie.
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> Best regards
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> Olga
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> El vie, 17 sept 2021 a las 12:54, Marie Pattullo - AIM via council (<
> council at gnso.icann.org>) escribió:
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> Thanks, Philippe.
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> Some very minor suggestions from the BC:
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> *Responsibilities*
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> ●        Attend monthly GNSO Council meetings held remotely.
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> *Qualifications*
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> ●        Willingness, ability, and commitment to travel to and actively
> participate in ICANN's three Public Meetings per year, or participate
> virtually, if applicable, as well as attend all monthly remote Council
> meetings, and serve as a volunteer on the Council throughout the term.
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> (specifying these are calls and do not require travel)
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> Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!
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> Marie
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> *From:* council <council-bounces at gnso.icann.org> *On Behalf Of *philippe.fouquart---
> via council
> *Sent:* Monday, 13 September 2021 19:13
> *To:* council at gnso.icann.org
> *Cc:* gnso-secs at icann.org
> *Subject:* [council] Review of the GNSO job description for NomCom
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> Dear Councilors,
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> Some of you may be aware that in recent years, the GNSO Council is invited
> on an annual basis to review the job description that the ICANN Nominating
> Committee uses in order to fulfil its appointments to the GNSO Council. The
> job description is a critical piece of guidance for the NomCom to ensure
> that it appoints GNSO Councilors that will succeed in their role. In an
> effort to try and make the job descriptions consistent across the various
> community organization, ICANN org made non-substantive updates to the job
> description structure. Council leadership has used this as the starting
> point for this review cycle. There is a window of opportunity for such a
> review, so we would like to use it lest this be deferred to a much later
> stage.
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> The GNSO Council has made incremental improvements to the criteria each
> year, and it is with the goal to continually refine the guidance to the
> NomCom that Council leadership has made suggested redlines in the attached.
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> You will see that the redlines focus primarily on the affiliation of
> candidates, where leadership believes that preference should be given
> towards non-affiliated candidates. This is of particular importance when
> the appointee will serve as a voting Councilor, where the balance of the
> Council needs to be considered; voting NomCom appointees may be in position
> to provide deciding votes, so it is important that they act independently.
> I want to stress that the suggested redlines are absolutely not in reaction
> to any particular appointees, recent or not, but rather a conclusion
> reached over the course of several cycles.
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> Please review the attached document and provide feedback by the end of
> this week.
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> Best regards,
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> Philippe
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