[council] Proposed agenda for next NC call ) Thursday June 6
Council
I have compared the current NC recommendations to the
ICANN evolution committee paper posted 31 May. There are encouraging areas
of alignment:
- scope and mission - much as it is
- need for staff support to policy development bodies
(PDB) (eg the new DNSO)
- a separate gtld PDB and a cctld PDB
- better outreach in policy development
- appeals process and ombudsman.
The key area for debate is the nature of board representation,
the nature of the members and chair of the PDBs steering committees (eg the new
names councils). The favoured proposals on the above all stem from the concept
of a nominating committee. The committee is foreseen as having multiple roles
-
- nominating some/most board seats
- nominating a neutral chair to the PDB steering
committees
- nominating some/most members of the PDB steering
committees
Given a nomcomm, a proposal is that the PDBs do NOT elect ANY
board seats but the nominated chairs are ex officio Board members. (Note: NC
recommendation 29 rejects this). So there is a lot of board nominating power
vested in such a committee. (Indeed, if the ex officio Board members are
non-voting, then the nomcomm nominates all Board voters. If the ex officio are
voting Board members, the nomcomm still nominates most votes).
At the last call we began to discuss a nominating
committee.I propose that we continue with this debate on the
next call, as it is key to any NC response to the essence of the
questions/proposals of the Evolution committee.
So the proposed agenda is:
1. Adoption of minutes of last call
2. Discussion on nominating committee proposals - from ICANN
Evolution committee and others
- concept of a committee to nominate SOME board
seats
- concept of such a committee to nominate chair/members of the
PDBs
- composition of a nominating committee
- ex officio Board seats for PDB chairs and
others
3. AOB
Philip Sheppard
NC Chair |