[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Results of the Voting for ALAC NominatingCommittee 2008 Appointments

[Izumi AIZU]

Hi,
Following is my "personal" comments as an ALAC member who voted on this.

I think that Danny's and Darlene's question about the process is
valid and requires good explanation. I thought the candidates
on the voting website were the valid ones - I should have
examined more carefully in the end. If I may, I was on the road
and just voted on the fly, but was convinved the candidates were
all qualified persons. I did not have time to check the NARALO
wiki, and I did not think it was necesarry for me to do so.
This is not saying that I am not responsible for the result, though.

I was charing the ALAC meeting on Sep 11, and handed over
my responsibility to the Chair/Vice Chair after that. But I still
feel responsible to implement what we agreed.

Now,  I urge the persons in charge who setup the voting
to come up with a reasonable explanation, and if failing so, I think
we should hold the final decision to NomCom.

I personally have little problem having registrar or other consitiuency
person to be nomiated to NomCom from ALAC, if he or she meets
the criteria we set and selected through a legitimate way.

But, until a good explanation is made, our accoutability is at stake
and therefore we should not conclude this.

izumi (still on the road in Europe with limited connection time)

2007/9/28, Thompson, Darlene <DThompson at gov.nu.ca>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just researched Danny's comments below and can confirm what he is
> saying.  I have just listened to the transcript of our telephone
> conference of Sept. 10 and there was no mention of Ross Rader, just
> Evan, Eric (is it Eric or Hugh?) and Michael (as per Danny's list).
> There has been absolutely no on-list activity mentioning Ross
> whatsoever.
>
> I, personally, have no problem with having Ross in this position.  On
> the other hand I, too, have serious reservations about the opacity of
> the process.  We had three names put forward, two of which were
> confirmed.  I would definitely like to know how this happened with
> complete disregard for input from the NARALO.  If processes are put in
> place, they should be followed or else what is the point of us putting
> our time and effort into this at all?
>
> Darlene
>
> Darlene A. Thompson
> Community Access Program Administrator
> Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP
> c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
> Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
> Phone:  (867) 975-6531
> Fax:  (867) 979-8870
> dthompson at gov.nu.ca
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> [mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny
> Younger
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:24 PM
> To: NA Discuss; At-Large Worldwide
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Results of the Voting for ALAC
> NominatingCommittee 2008 Appointments
>
> Dear Members,
>
> The North American community is entitled to an
> explanation of the voting results for our region that
> saw a supplier-side registrar representative elected
> whose name was never once introduced for candidacy on
> the NARALO discussion list.
>
> The minutes of the last ALAC meeting state:
> "It was decided that the RALOs would provide their
> advice and recommendations by the end of this week
> (NLT 16st September). There would then be a vote
> online using instant runoff for the candidates of each
> region wherever there is more than one candidate
> proposed from a region."
>
> The North American region advanced three names:  Eric
> Dierker (confirmed), Michael Geist (at last report was
> "pending confirmation", and Evan Leibovitch
> (confirmed).
>
> The current NARALO Wiki contains only two names:
>
> Hugh Dierker [USA]
> current chair of the GNSO's General Assembly
> Proposed by Danny Younger
> Confirmed
>
> Evan Leibovich [Canada]
> ALS Representative, CLUE (Canada)
> Proposed by Beau & Robert
> Confirmed
>
> https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?na_nominating_committee_candidates
> _2007
>
> You will note that Ross Rader's name is not mentioned
> therein, yet suddenly he has been elected without
> member ALSs and North American individual participants
> in the RALO even being aware of his candidacy.
>
> Further, voting results show that Eric Dierker's name
> was never even voted upon, notwithstanding the fact
> that his bio/credentials were submitted for review.
>
> I find:
> (1) the opaqueness of this process outrageously
> disturbing,
> (2) the voting process that saw candidates having
> their names not included as perverse in the extreme,
> (3) the result (the election of registry and registrar
> representatives instead of user representatives) as a
> vile and deplorable abuse of trust
>
> I, and likely the Ombudsman as well, await an
> explanation.
>
>
>
>
>
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