[At-Large] [BMSPC-2020] Board seat 15 selection

Fri Nov 22 09:36:43 UTC 2019

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:57 PM sivasubramanian muthusamy <
6.internet at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> A transitional bridge on the path of the NomCom selecting all the members
> is to ask the AC/SOs to send three names for each of the 'reserved' seats,
> perhaps with an indication of an order of preference, for the NomCom to
> make a selection among the three names. If this can't happen and the status
> quo continues, a balance is still required across a) GNSO taken together
> with ccNSO (???) and b) GAC taken together with ccNSO (?) and ALAC, with
> representation for RSSAC, IETF and SSAC whose expertise is definitely
> needed in the Board Deliberations
>

ie. a balance between GNSO, GAC and ALAC and apart from this balance for
the 15 seats, RSSAC, IETF and SSAC.

>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:48 AM Roberto Gaetano <
> mail.roberto.gaetano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At the time of the NomCom Review I posted a comment recommending that the
>> NomCom selects all the members of the ICANN Board. The rationale for that
>> was that the SO-appointed Directors were in a permanent conflict because
>> although they had a fiduciary responsibility to ICANN they were
>> nevertheless obliged to follow the interest of their own organization if
>> they wanted to be re-elected. We had in the past exemplary cases of
>> independence by Directors, but also cases of the contrary.
>> There were also other considerations, but at this early stage I just want
>> to throw this idea as brainstorming, we can develop it later if other
>> people find it worth exploring.
>> Cheers,
>> R
>>
>> > On 22.11.2019, at 01:24, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > One place to begin thinking about goals is to look at the list of
>> things in this ICANN document:
>> >
>> > http://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/santiago/membership-analysis.htm
>> >
>> > Another place might be to look at some of the rather mild proposals
>> that we made in the BWG (Boston Working Group) submission way back when:
>> >
>> > https://cavebear.com/archive/bwg/submission-letter.html
>> >
>> > Personally I'd like a return to the original commitment made during
>> ICANN's formation that at least a majority of ICANN board of directors be
>> chosen (indirectly or directly) by the community of internet users.
>> >
>> > It could be illuminating if people here sat down, fired up their hopes
>> and imaginations, and set down their vision of what a properly formed
>> ICANN, unfettered by the present structure, would be.
>> >
>> > How those hopes could be achieved is a hard question.
>> >
>> > The lawyer in me tends to think of means that resemble the fabled use
>> of a 2x4 to get the attention of a reluctant mule.
>> >
>> > Perhaps one might want to coax ICANN to recognize that it is (or at
>> least was in year 2000) a membership based public-benefit/non-profit per
>> California Law.
>> >
>> > Another possible means would be to revisit the grounds upon which ICANN
>> receives its US Federal tax exemption (501(c)(3)).  It's been years since I
>> last looked, but initially it was, if I remember correctly, "to lessen the
>> burdens of government" (for the US gov't.)  If that's still the foundation,
>> it would be one that is filled with cracks and crumbling.
>> >
>> > Those might not be good approaches - they might engender a lot of
>> resentment (they would certainly engender a lot of legal fees paid by ICANN
>> to Jones Day.  ;-)
>> >
>> >     --karl--
>> >
>> > On 11/21/19 3:10 PM, bzs at theworld.com wrote:
>> >> Perhaps I'm being naive but what seems to me is missing in this
>> >> conversation is: By what process might this ship be righted?
>> >>
>> >> Multiple choice is acceptable.
>> >>
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