[NA-Discuss] 2008 ICANN Nominating Committee Announces Selections

[Danny Younger]

Re:  "I would love to be able to tell everyone how I think the selections made did or didn't live up to my expectations"

I'll be happy to comment on that... most of the folks selected by the NonCom to sit on the ALAC in prior years were duds.  When coupled with the duds selected by their regions through popularity contests, we wound up with an organization that has been disappointingly ineffective.




--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Ross Rader <ross at tucows.com> wrote:

> From: Ross Rader <ross at tucows.com>
> Subject: Re: 2008 ICANN Nominating Committee Announces Selections
> To: dannyyounger at yahoo.com
> Cc: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 10:20 AM
> On Sep 6, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Danny Younger wrote:
> >
> > Was an Assessment Organization in fact hired?  Or is
> this also  
> > something you can't talk about?
> 
> Yes, we did use an outside firm to help us establish a
> baseline that  
> we could use to help us with the evaluation of the
> candidates.
> 
> BTW - the processes used by the Nominating Committee are
> not "secret",  
> but information about the Candidates and the specifics of
> the  
> deliberations are. I think the restrictions are reasonable
> and lend  
> themselves to attracting the best candidates. I would love
> to be able  
> to tell everyone how I think the selections made did or
> didn't live up  
> to my expectations - in fact, given that I'd like to
> this again, it  
> would be in my interests to do so, but the fact is, its
> just not fair  
> to the people that didn't get picked to go into the
> gory details.  
> Every year, excellent candidates get passed over - its just
> not fair  
> to them to have these details publicized.
> 
> /ross