Also, the same "discrimination" that is seeked for ALAC is not applied in other parts of the organization. Although the NomCom members in the Name Council are only 1/7 of the total, the current Chairperson is one of them. For the ICANN Board, both Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson are NomCom appointees. Of course, the participation of the ALSes has to be promoted also allowing their representatives to be appointed to leadership positions in ALAC, but I would be sincerely worried if we make this a rule, or even a practice. Cheers, Roberto
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Vittorio Bertola Sent: 10 October 2007 09:31 To: Bret Fausett Cc: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALAC Positions open for nominations 2007-2008
Bret Fausett ha scritto:
At the same time, I would encourage anyone involved with the ALAC who is not already affiliated with an ALS to join an existing ALS or, perhaps even better, convince an organization with which you are already a member to join the RALO in your region.
I support the appeal, but let's not forget that Nomcom members were added (contrarily to the advice of the ALAC Advisory Group who made the initial proposal - we had suggested to have these five seats picked through a global (s)election process inside the At Large) exactly to bring a different type of people into the mechanism, and avoid the risk of the ALS-RALO-ALAC system becoming too closed and self-referential.
For the time being, Nomcom-appointed members are 1/3 of the ALAC, and it would be unfair to them to discriminate them for any position - actually, if we look at the issue mathematically, one out of the three Chair + Vice Chairs should be a Nomcom-appointed ALAC member. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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