[lac-discuss-en] The At-Large ICANN Board Candidate Selection

Andrés Piazza andrespiazza at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 15:05:28 UTC 2010


Great words Carlton. +1

2010/11/3 Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>

> Dear Colleagues & Friends:
> I hope you don't mind my 2 cents but I would wish to support the position
> argued by Darlene and others.   We cannot disavow the role personality
> plays
> in these matters but let us be cautious on this.  I like and have
> tremenduous respect for  Avri.  I deeply respect several others on the list
> who, too, didn't make the cut.  But I hold that invoking the petition
> process at this time is counterproductive and, even more corrosive,
> rubbishes the work of the BCEC  committee.
>
> The objective remains; the At-Large wishes to fill Seat No 15 on the ICANN
> Board with a member sympathetic, if not committed, to the At-Large agenda.
>  The ABSdt Committee collected attributes and spent many months defining
> the
> candidate attribute set and selection criteria.  Do have another look at
> the
> SOI; it was laid out to play like it was an infomercial - for the
> candidate.
> The process devised separated determination of the selection criteria from
> the evaluation process; the BCEC is peopled by members from the edge of the
> At-Large; ALS members.  They collectively designed a selection process that
> included, among other steps designed to reduce the influence of
> personality,
> anonymised candidates for their process.   They had two passes at the
> candidate list. And they produced 3 finalist candidates.
>
> Now, maybe our preferred candidate did not emerge from this process.  And
> perhaps, like doting parents who are unanimous that our children are above
> average, our candidate is, of right, first among equals. But in the
> universe
> of things that could've happened and until I am otherwise convinced, this
> is
> hardly reason to say of the BCEC 'you did not get this right'.   Maybe the
> next go-round will be more favourable to our favourite candidate.
>
> Let it be.
>
> Carlton
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> > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:39:04 +0000
> > From: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson1 at GOV.NU.CA>
> > Subject: [NA-Discuss] FW:  Fwd: ALAC BoD Candidates
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Actually, Garth Bruen did reply and stated that although he was on the
> > slate, too, he would oppose this.
> >
> > Why aren't we campaigning for Garth?  He is excellent, too.
> >
> > This is why I *personally* think that we should allow the process to
> > continue and assume that the BCEC did its job.  Elsewise, it comes down
> to
> > personalities and who we all like.  I like Avri very much and think she
> > would do an excellent job but there were other people on the slate that I
> > thought just as qualified.
> >
> > This is just my opinion but it is also why I would be against this.  I am
> > not going to go second guessing the very qualified people on the BCEC.
> >
> > D
> >
> > Darlene A. Thompson
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> > N-CAP/Department of Education
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> > Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
> > (867) 975-5610
> > dthompson at gov.nu.ca
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