[PC-NCSG] Fwd: Re: GNSO Vice Chair selection

[Tapani Tarvainen]

CSG replied to our proposal about VC election, mostly agreeing
otherwise but not on the NCA-as-final-fallback idea.

But they didn't offer any alternative for what should happen
if even 3rd offer from the other SG is rejected.

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Tapani Tarvainen
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Dear Tapani,

thanks for your reply from 21 October where you've accepted most of the points suggested by our Stakeholder Group. 
We've only little concern with some of the points you added:

to 8. the total number of nominations should be limited to 3 meaning 2 re-nominations at maximum
to 9. and 11. nomination of the NCA as Vice Chair could be one option but shouldn't be a must. This is reflected in the slghtly amended 11.

Our suggested amendment (in red):

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1. Vice Chairs would serve one-year terms.

2. The first-term Vice Chair would presumptively serve a second one-year term, but would be subject to review and consent by the other SG after the first term.

3. Review and consent by the other SG after the first term could result in a rejection of the sitting Vice Chair, but there would need to be extraordinary reasons for this rejection.

4. If a Vice Chair does not serve a second term (whether by rejection or for any other reason), that Vice Chair's SG would nominate a candidate for the upcoming term, but that Vice Chair would presumptively serve only one one-year term. The new candidate would be subject to review and approval by the other SG.

5. After two years with one SG, the Vice Chair-ship would be offered as a first nomination to the "non-incumbent" SG.

6. The "non-incumbent" SG would nominate a candidate for review and approval by the first SG, probably through a "listening tour" process.

7. While there would be a presumption in favor of the candidate of the "non-incumbent" SG, both SGs and the NCA allocated to the NCPH have to approve the candidate.

8. If approval is not achieved, the "non-incumbent" SG would nominate another candidate, up to three two additional times if necessary.

9. If approval is not achieved even after three re-nominations, the NCA would become Vice Chair.

10. In case either SG member becomes the Chair of GNSO, the other SG would get to select Vice Chair. It would not affect rotation after the Chair passes on to the CPH again, presumptive Vice Chair turn would go to whichever SG did not hold Vice Chair before.

11. If SGs agree to nominate the NCA as Vice Chair or the NCA become Vice Chair as per 9 above, the presumptive rotation would continue after her or his term as if it hadn't happened.
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We would appreciate acceptance by the NCSG and remain open for further discussion in particular during our bilateral meeting in Hyderabad.


Best regards

Wolf-Ulrich

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- 
From: Tapani Tarvainen 
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 5:31 PM 
To: WUKnoben 
Subject: GNSO Vice Chair selection 

Dear Wolf-Ulrich,

My apologies for taking so long with this. Everybody has been so
busy it's been difficult to get anything done quickly.

I don't have anything on the board member selection process yet,
this is only about Vice Chair selection now.

As I said during the call, our main issues with your proposal were

(1) it left it too easy to break the consensus process - there
should be stronger incentive to seek for consensus before
falling back to "anybody can nominate..."

(2) there was no mention of what would happen to the rotation
in case NCPH gets the Chair or if the NCA is elected as Vice Chair.

Below is an attempt to address these concerns. Steps 1-7 are
unchanged from your text, 8-9 an attempt to address (1) above
and 10-11 (2).

Point 9 is perhaps a bit surprising, but the intent is to
provide incentive to finding consensus by a default outcome
that'd be sufficiently (but not too) undesirable.

Please relay this to CSG ExCom and let me know what you think.

Regards,

Tapani

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1. Vice Chairs would serve one-year terms.

2. The first-term Vice Chair would presumptively serve a second
one-year term, but would be subject to review and consent by the other
SG after the first term.

3. Review and consent by the other SG after the first term could
result in a rejection of the sitting Vice Chair, but there would need
to be extraordinary reasons for this rejection.

4. If a Vice Chair does not serve a second term (whether by rejection
or for any other reason), that Vice Chair's SG would nominate a
candidate for the upcoming term, but that Vice Chair would
presumptively serve only one one-year term. The new candidate would be
subject to review and approval by the other SG.

5. After two years with one SG, the Vice Chair-ship would be offered
as a first nomination to the "non-incumbent" SG.

6. The "non-incumbent" SG would nominate a candidate for review and
approval by the first SG, probably through a "listening tour" process.

7. While there would be a presumption in favor of the candidate of the
"non-incumbent" SG, both SGs and the NCA allocated to the NCPH have to
approve the candidate.

8. If approval is not achieved, the "non-incumbent" SG would nominate
another candidate, up to three times if necessary.

9. If approval is not achieved even after three re-nominations,
the NCA would become Vice Chair.

10. In case either SG member becomes the Chair of GNSO, the other SG
would get to select Vice Chair. It would not affect rotation after the
Chair passes on to the CPH again, presumptive Vice Chair turn would go
to whichever SG did not hold Vice Chair before.

11. If SGs agree to nominate the NCA as Vice Chair or the NCA becomes
Vice Chair as per 9 above, the presumptive rotation would continue
after her or his term as if it hadn't happened.


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Tapani Tarvainen
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