[PC-NCSG] [urgent] NCPH candidate nomination

[David Cake]

> On 24 Sep 2015, at 11:14 pm, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
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> On 24-Sep-15 09:56, Amr Elsadr wrote:
>> On the other hand, I can?t say that I agreed with her views on all issues raised during the call, and still have concerns with a member of the IPC chairing the council while it is managing the process for PDPs on  a subsequent round of new gTLDs, next gen RDS and a review of the UDRP.
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> I can't say I agreed with all her views either.  Then again I am not
> sure I agree with the views of anyone on all the issues. Often, I am not
> even sure I agree with my own views on everything all the time - that is
> often the effect of listening to other people and the passage of time.

	I?m very fond of a quote from David Mamet, on some people he met attending the Soldier of Fortune convention:
"I didn't agree with some of the ideas, but then I don't agree with a lot of my own ideas, and seem powerless to rid myself of them?

> I think that if she is nominated and wins, her desire to maintain her
> academic integrity and reputation will insure she listens when anyone
> explains to her that she is leaning one way or another. I think she is a
> listener - and that is a rare capability in the GNSO council. I think it
> is a capability we need to consider in any candidate.

	I think she can be relatively trusted to try hard to be impartial. There is also a good chance that some in the IPC will try to pressure her otherwise (I even got grilled by the Kristinator for not being sufficiently biased towards the NCPH), but I think she is well equipped to resist it.

>> Having said that, I can?t say I am opposed to nominating her on behalf of the NCPH, but cannot say whether or not I would vote for her when the time comes to elect a new chair. If we do agree to nominate her, I believe this should be communicated clearly to both the CSG and the CPH SGs.
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> I do think that everyone knows that being nominated by a house does not
> guarantee the votes of that house when the chair election is held in
> Dublin.

	Absolutely. Especially as we do not know who the CPH candidate is. I would assume it likely that we would vote for a registrar candidate, given the excellent working relationship we have had with them over the last couple of years, and I?d assume the CSG are not blind to that. The best chance of getting an NCPH chair has always been that there will be no strong CPH candidate.

	David

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