[NA-Discuss] ALAC Members

[Bret Fausett]

>> Why does ICANN reserve the right to select these people if,  
>> really, they are not answerable to any group?

I served on ICANN's first Nominating Committee and took part in the  
reform process that created the "NomComm," so perhaps I can speak to  
this. The idea was that ICANN would benefit from having people  
participate in its various bodies who *were not* answerable to any  
group and who could exercise their independent judgment in ways that  
they thought were best to further ICANN's purposes. You will see a  
handful of Nominating Committee appointed members on each of ICANN's  
major deliberative bodies: Board of Directors, GNSO Council, ccNSO  
Council, and At Large Advisory Committee.

We also have a strong role to play in the Nominating Committee itself  
as the ALAC appoints five of the Nominating Committee members, the  
largest voting group on the committee.

          Bret