Hi Julf. My recollection is that in this particular case, it was not Council Leadership that determined that the Chair of the PDP would be selected by the Standing Selection Committee, but rather the Charter Drafting Team for the PDP. The reason for this was in part the fact that I raised the issue that every single member of this PDP is representing particular interests and is not really empowered to act in a neutral manner because the PDP is Representative only and has no open model element.. So I think it's not accurate to say that Council Leadership made this determination re the SSC's role in selecting a Chair. I have also served on the SSC and very much appreciate the fact that the mode of decision-maknig is to come to a unanimous decision, which is apparently what happened here.

I think there is a difference between the point Bruna is raising and the completely orderly and proper selection of the Chair by the SSC as contemplated by the Charter drafting team. I understood Bruna's point to be about communication on the PDP list and also about the order of Chair approval by the Council before installing that selection to the Chair position. So it strikes me the issue is about communication and not about the fact that it was determined the Chair should be recommended to Council by the SSC. So at this point I would ask Council members if

(1)anyone plans to request this item be moved off of the Council's Consent Agenda and

(2) anyone objects to the SSC Recommendation to Council

(3) anyone objects to Paul chairing the meetings in Mumbai before the Council vote

(4) anyone believes that Vice Chair selection should be delayed until the Council vote on the Chair occurs.

Thank you,

Anne

Anne Aikman-Scalese

GNSO Councilor

NomCom Non-Voting 2022-2026

anneicanngnso@gmail.com

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:38 AM Johan Helsingius via council <council@icann.org> wrote:

On 25/02/2026 2:38 am, Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts via council wrote:
> Where for any good reason the decision of SCC is not confirmed by
> Council and the proposed candidate rejected, the working group would be
> without a Chair for the reason that according to the working group’s
> charter which was developed with inputs and reviews from many of us here
> in Council, it is the GNSO Council’s role to appoint a Chair for the
> Working group for which the mechanism of doing so is the SCC.

Just to clarify, the SSC does not usually select WG chairs. It is
normally done either by the council/council leadership or by the WG
itself. In this case the council leadership decided to use the SCC
process, but in a heavily modified (and exceptional) form. After
discussions the process was then changed to be more in line with
normal SSC practice, but the use of the SSC in selecting a WG chair
is still unusual, and purely a council leadership decision, not
normal practice.

Julf

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