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

[Thompson, Darlene]

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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