Seun, my message was only about appointments.

To be clear, is it your understanding that when an SO or AC selects a Board member, a) the CMSM *must* make that appointment, or b) may the other SO/ACS vote not to?

a or b?

Alan
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On July 18, 2015 3:50:15 PM GMT+02:00, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Alan,

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:

Seun, I think that you may have misunderstood. The CMSM would be required pass on the appointment decisions of the SO/AC/NomCom, but it would not take an independent decision on these. The decision to appoint would remain the sole right of the individual SO, AC or NomCom.

I think i understand that correctly Alan; even though SO,AC or Nomcom appoints, the bylaw would legally recognise that the appointments were made by CMSM. Otherwise there will not have been need for item 2 below as presented by legal council:

ICANN Bylaw moderation required for CMSM:
 - Set up community mechanism as sole member
- Alter director selection process so CMSM elects directors
- Address membership structure with one member

In my country the president appoints its minister but the "house of assembly" approves it. While we may say president indeed does indeed appoint constitutionally the assembly is part of the appointment.

So we are not populating the Board collectively, the collective is simply honouring the decision of the individual organizations.

Based on my above i hope you get my point now.

Again as its been said often, board removal is an unlikely thing to happen(although i will argue its because we have not such provision at the moment). However if we make SO/AC board member removal so independent of other parts of the community, then we may experience board removal often than we may have thought.

We need to know know every board member removed is removed because he did not act in-line with the bylaw and not necessarily because he/she did not act inline with a particular SO/AC's view (even though that can be a second reason)

Regards

Alan

At 18/07/2015 07:21 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:

- SO/AC removing their individual board members goes against the concept of "Community Mechanism as Sole Member" (CMSM) which simply indicates that appointment of board members would now be executed by CMSM (even though individual SO/AC does the selection). So if we populate the board collectively why should we not so same for removal

- It would make no procedural sense for us to exercise CMSM powers without the bodies that constitutes that mechanism approving it- I don't know of any organisation where this is done. Even in individual members based organisations, a member cannot remove any board member, its usually certain number of members.(including if it were board removing its member)