While it is properly for the members of the ALAC, and in particular those from North America, to comment on the candidates put forward for voting by the committee and anything related to their choices based upon that list, I should comment on the process.

The Bylaws of ICANN, as has widely been stated earlier in the on-list discussions of selection of the 5 NomCom voting members which the ALAC appoints each year, provide in Article IX, S2(4)(e):

e. The ALAC shall annually appoint one non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors, without limitation on re-appointment, and shall, after consultation with each RALO, annually appoint five voting delegates (no two of whom shall be citizens of countries in the same Geographic Region, as defined according to Section 5 of Article VI) to the Nominating Committee.

In this instance, as has been noted, the ALAC did consult with the RALO. The members of the ALAC for North America included candidates from that region on the page at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?2008_alac_nominating_committee and on that page also provided commentary on the selection criteria which they used to reach the names listed on that page.

The ALAC voted on the candidates on the same page, and the results were as indicated.

If the RALOs, or individual ALSes, believe that the Bylaws should be changed in some manner which would affect future NomCom appointments, it would be for them to suggest that.

Perhaps the NARALO Secretariat and Chair will wish to bring this topic up during the meetings of the Secretariat in LA

On 27 Sep 2007, at 20:23, Danny Younger wrote:

Dear Members,

The North American community is entitled to an
explanation of the voting results for our region that
saw a supplier-side registrar representative elected
whose name was never once introduced for candidacy on
the NARALO discussion list.

The minutes of the last ALAC meeting state:
"It was decided that the RALOs would provide their
advice and recommendations by the end of this week
(NLT 16st September). There would then be a vote
online using instant runoff for the candidates of each
region wherever there is more than one candidate
proposed from a region."

The North American region advanced three names:  Eric
Dierker (confirmed), Michael Geist (at last report was
"pending confirmation", and Evan Leibovitch
(confirmed).  

The current NARALO Wiki contains only two names:

Hugh Dierker [USA] 
current chair of the GNSO's General Assembly 
Proposed by Danny Younger 
Confirmed 

Evan Leibovich [Canada] 
ALS Representative, CLUE (Canada) 
Proposed by Beau & Robert 
Confirmed 

https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?na_nominating_committee_candidates_2007

You will note that Ross Rader's name is not mentioned
therein, yet suddenly he has been elected without
member ALSs and North American individual participants
in the RALO even being aware of his candidacy.

Further, voting results show that Eric Dierker's name
was never even voted upon, notwithstanding the fact
that his bio/credentials were submitted for review.

I find: 
(1) the opaqueness of this process outrageously
disturbing, 
(2) the voting process that saw candidates having
their names not included as perverse in the extreme,
(3) the result (the election of registry and registrar
representatives instead of user representatives) as a
vile and deplorable abuse of trust

I, and likely the Ombudsman as well, await an
explanation.





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