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

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Thank you Rafik.

But one detail I'm not clear about:

When a member is absent and an alternate is called, is it the alternate who gets to vote for the consensus, rather than a participant?

Tapani

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 11:15:17PM +0900, Rafik Dammak via NCSG-PC (ncsg-pc at lists.ncsg.is) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Participant is like member but cannot participate in the consensus
> designation. They can join calls , discussion etc.we expect the 6 members
> and 3 participants to participate fully and get replaced by alternate if
> they cannot attend a call.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> Rafik
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 21:42 Tapani Tarvainen via NCSG-PC <
> ncsg-pc at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:
> 
> > 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
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Tapani Tarvainen