[NCUC-DISCUSS] NomCom

Fri May 8 07:04:50 EEST 2020

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On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 11:57, Raymond Mamattah <mamattah.raymond at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Wolfgang for the well detailed report. This seems to be a lot
> of work but obviously. Keep up with the good works.
>
> Regards
> Raymond Mamattah
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020, 9:35 AM Wolfgang Kleinwächter <
> wolfgang at kleinwaechter.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as the NCUC Rep. in the 2020 NomCom, I want to give you an interim
>> report, where we are with the NomCom process in difficult times. As you
>> know, the work of the NomCom follows the principle of confidentially with
>> regard to persons. But there should be as much as transparency with regard
>> to process.
>>
>> 1. We did have a good start in Montreal, November 2019. We got a general
>> briefing, went through the needed paper work, were listen to the expections
>> of the chairs of the various groups (Board, CNSO, GNSO, ALAC) and what they
>> do expect from candidates, selected by the NomCom in 2020. As you now, the
>> NomCom is totally independent and we do not accept "instructions" from the
>> Board or other ICANN officials. However, it is important for the NomCom and
>> its individual members to understand, what the problems and expectations
>> are in the various groups (Board, ACs and SOs). We discussed also our
>> methodology and the timetable for telcos as well as general principles for
>> the final selection phase, as, inter alia, diversity (gender, geography,
>> skills, age etc.).
>>
>> 2. The Outreach was rather scuccesful. We got nearly 100 excellent
>> candidates for all the seven positions (2 Board, 1 PTI, 1 CNSO, 1 GNSO, 2
>> ALAC/EU/NA) from all regions of the world. The majority applied for a board
>> position. Unfortunmately, the number of candidates for the two ALAC
>> position was below ten. Nevertheless, there are excellent experts among the
>> small number of canddiates for the ALAC positions. With other words, no
>> worry. We will get good people for the two ALAC positions.
>>
>> 3. As for other parts of the ICANN Community, Covid-19 challenged also
>> the NomCom plans and timetables. Our plan was to have a first substantial
>> discussion about all the candidates in Cancun and a second F2F meeting end
>> of April 2020 in Washington, D.C., to produce a "short list". All the
>> meetings were cancelled. In a number of Telcos and after extensive
>> consultations with the Board and ICANN Legal we developed an alternative
>> plan with a number of options, moving the whole work - for the moment -
>> into the virtual space with an endless chain of Zoom-Meetings.
>>
>> 4. The first step was a virtual polling. We tried to produce "short
>> lists" of candidates for all the bodies (Board, PTI, CNSO, GNSO, ALAC) via
>> virtual discussion and polling and voting online. This was a two stage
>> process. In the first round every NomCom member had to give a basic "red",
>> "yellow" or "green" to all the candidates. The plan was to single out
>> candidates, which do not have the basic qualifications, to serve in one of
>> the offered positions. Candidates, who got a majority of "red", were
>> eliminated from the process, unless one NomCom member intervened and argued
>> in favour to keep the candidate in the process. For the remaining
>> candidates we started a so-called "soft-dive" process. Each NomCom member
>> got three to five applicants for a "soft dive" into the background, the
>> qualifications, strengths and weaknesses of the individual candidates,
>> based on the Application Form and additional sources as websearch etc. In a
>> series of telcos (two peer week and three hours each) we discussed every
>> individual candidate (about 20 - 30 minutes per candidate). At the end of
>> the discussion we first had a polling (which included also the non-voting
>> members of the NomCom). After the polling there was a second round of
>> discussion, followed by a voting of the voting Nom-Com members. We are now
>> nearly at the end of this round. Our aim is to have at the end a short list
>> of about 14 candidates for the board and five candidates for all the other
>> positions.
>>
>> 5. As far as I can see it now, we have really excellent candidates for
>> all positions. This will make future work even more complicated. Formally,
>> the next steps will be a "deep-dive" for the remaining candidates (two
>> Nom-Com members have to report to the whole NomCom about the individual
>> candidate), followed by personal interviews with the candidates who make it
>> to the "shortend short list". The original timetable was, that the 2020
>> NomCom will make the interviews and its final selection at the meeting
>> during ICANN Kuala Lumpur in June. But as we know, there will be no F2F
>> meetings in KL.
>>
>> 6. At this moment, it is unclear how to proceed further. As all know, who
>> served in a NomCom, in the final phase there is a need for very intense
>> personal and interactive communication. The general political and personal
>> climate within the 2020 NomCom is excellent and we have develop something
>> what can be called a "team spirit", thanks also to the excellent leadership
>> by Jay, Damon and Ole and very engaged individual NomCom members. However,
>> it is difficult to imagine, how we can get to a consensus in a online
>> proceeding without a final F2F meeting. There are discussions between the
>> NomCom leadership team and ICANN Legal, what options we have. According to
>> the bylaws we have to announce the final selection two months before the
>> Annual Meeting (scheduled for October 2020 in Hamburg). We have to announce
>> the selection in the second half of August. There is a need for six weeks
>> for due dilligence between our final selection and the final green light.
>> With other words, we have to make our final decision end of June. How this
>> can be achieved is an open question at the moment.
>>
>> I will keep you informed as soon as we have more clarity.
>>
>> Best wishes and stay safe.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
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