[NCSG-PC] Withdrawal from the DNS Abuse Mitigation PDP 1

[Tapani Tarvainen]

I realize I don't know how participants vs alternates will work.

When a member cannot attend a meeting, will they be replaced by an
alternate or will a participant be pushed in as a temporary member
and an alternate as a temporary participant?

Either way, we need one new person: either a new participant or
a new alternate if we push an alternate to a participant.

Do we have a viable candidate? If not, we'll either need to ask
for more time so that we can issue a new call or leave one
alternate position to be filled later.

Or we could come up with some extraordinary process to name a new
alternate.

I presume there's also a process for changing members, participants
and alternates later. If we want to have a full slate from the
beginning we could make a temporary appointment (maybe one of us could
volunteer, maybe Rafik?) and issue a call for a permanent one later,
just to give us time to do it properly.

Tapani

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 07:00:20AM -0500, farzaneh badii via NCSG-PC (ncsg-pc at lists.ncsg.is) wrote:
> 
> Hi Rafik
> 
> Is there another viable candidate? We can also appoint an alternate as
> participant.
> 
> Farzaneh
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 6:59 AM Rafik Dammak via NCSG-PC <
> ncsg-pc at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We need to make quick decision.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Rafik
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 10:42 Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Sherry was appointed as participant but she is withdrawing. We got an
> >> extension to appoint a replacement to submit by 16th Feb.
> >> Any thought on this?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Rafik
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >> Dear Rafik,
> >>
> >> I am writing to inform you that I need to withdraw my participation from
> >> the DNS Abuse Mitigation PDP Working Group as an NCSG participant.
> >>
> >> Following a discussion with Jennifer, additional considerations were
> >> brought to light, and require me to step back from this working group at
> >> this time.
> >>
> >> This is not an outcome I had hoped for, and I sincerely apologise for any
> >> inconvenience this may cause. I appreciate the opportunity to have been
> >> selected and I'm sorry it has come to this.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Sherry