[PC-NCSG] NCSG letter to board RE: NomCom seat allocation to NPOC

[Maria Farrell]

Hi Robin,

I strongly agree. It is pretty tough-going to be the sole noncommercial
member of the NomCom, and horribly inadequate representation. Whatever the
rhetoric espoused about the committee's responsibility to ICANN as a whole,
and not the groups NomCom members come from, the reality is that it can be
very partisan.

I vaguely recall the academic position was filled in the early days by some
largely US-based committee or organisation of university tech people
descended from the Internet's network progenitors. Or at least that was the
intent, but it fell apart at some point, or they stopped being able to send
people or agree on it. I can't recall it, but there was a good faith effort
back in the mists of time. Anyway, that is only partly relevant to today's
issue that there is little or no countervailing force to the
over-represented commercial perspectives. (Remember, that RSG and RySG are
also almost entirely commercial.)

All the best, Maria


On 2 July 2013 19:59, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:

> Dear NCSG Policy Committee:
>
> Since the NCSG is woefully under-represented on the ICANN Nominating
> Committee, and the "academic" non-commercial seat was another one of
> ICANN's empty promises, we should send a letter to the ICANN Board of
> Directors requesting ICANN change its bylaws so that the NCSG is
> represented equally to the CSG in this important Nominating Committee.  We
> should request and the Board should agree, at the very least, to provide
> NPOC with a seat on NomCom since it is a full-fledged NCSG constituency.
>  Thoughts to this proposal?
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
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