Hi Siavash,
I do not wish to engage in a string of he said, she said, but draw your
attention to the following email from Cheryl when nominating you which
is self-explanatory and I copy the paragraph in question below for
clarity:
To this end please accept this email as my formal nomination of Siavash Shahshahani for this position;
and I call for both a seconder and for Siavash to confirm his continuing interest, and accept this nomination on
this list.
I assume you are on this list and saw the message, as you refer to it
below, and note that you did not respond until now. I would have
thought you would have raised the issue you raise below when the
message was sent on 15 August.
With reference to your comment about ICANN staff, in APRALO's case at
least there is no question of being misled by ICANN staff. I refer to
the message by the ALAC Chair on 27 July to the general alac list which
said this:
We'd like the RALOs to send the regional recommendation to the ALAC to the ALAC by
end August, so there isn't much time.
This statement explicitly calls for a "regional recommendation to ALAC"
and that is exactly what we have been engaged in.
Regards,
R.
-------- Original Message --------
As I mentioned to some of you (by way of general information) at the close
of our teleconference last week with the ALAC Liaison Candidates... Siavash
has previously indicated to Izumi, Hong and myself, that he was interested
in being nominated by APRALO for this position...
To this end please accept this email as my formal nomination of Siavash
Shahshahani for this position; and I call for both a seconder and for
Siavash to confirm his continuing interest, and accept this nomination on
this list.
Siavash Shahshahani wrote:
Dear Rajnesh,
Just to clarify, as Cheryl indicated in her letter to you, I had asked to
be considered for the Nom Com, so I had been self-nominated and there was
no question of accepting or rejecting the nomination. Regarding your
recollection of Bali meeting, I'm sure you remember that I was there
too(and in fact I chaired the meeting!). While your statement about APRALO
roles is correct, let me point out that that the Nom.Com. representation
is not a RALO function. According to ICANN by laws ALAC selects the Nom
Com representative but should seek advice from the relevant RALO. If
anybody has led you to believe that the initiation comes from the RALO,
they've been wrong; I suggest that you read the by laws. There was a
discussion about this recently on the internal ALAC list and concern was
expressed that ICANN staff may have unwittingly misled the RALOs about the
subject. Now I see that the concern was justified.
Best,
Siavash
Colleagues,
The deadline for nominations has closed.
We have 3 candidates nominated thus far, summarised below.
*CANDIDATE* *NOMINATED BY*
*ALS* *NOMINATION DATE*
Nirmol Agarwal (ISVK) ISVK-India / ISVK-India / 14th August 2007
Siavash Shahshahani (No ALS)
Cheryl Langdon-Orr /
Bilal Beiram
ISOC-AU /
AKMS
15th August 2007
Karaitiana Taiuru (New Zealand Maori Internet Society) New Zealand
Maori Internet Society /
Franck Martin New Zealand Maori Internet Society / 15th August 2007
Out of the above 3 candidates, 2 were self-nominations (Nirmol and
Karaitiana). Siavash has not indicated to the list that he has accepted
the nomination.
At the Bali Meeting earlier this year, there was general consensus that
APRALO roles and functions would be handled by members from within ALS'.
If there was no interest from within ALS' then such roles and functions
could be offered to persons outside the ALS'. In this instance we have 2
persons representing ALS' interested in the position, and 1 person
nominated from outside the APRALO ALS'.
If we stick to the consensus agreed to in Bali, then our preference must
be between Nirmol and Karaitiana.
I now seek your guidance on reaching consensus on our candidate
nomination. The other options are to offer both candidates to ALAC and
let them pick one, or we vote and decide. Note that we need to reach
this decision by the end of this coming weekend.
I look forward to your input.
--
Kind regards,
Rajnesh D. Singh
Chair, ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation www.apralo.org