I have a point of clarification. Did "negotiate to a common acceptable position on the placement of the NCA appointees" mean getting unanimous support from all SGs? As it stands, three of four SGs supported the alternative seating arrangement proposed by the RySG. That is very strong support. Are we going to let one SG block a solution that has support from all other SGs? I know that we do not yet come under the new voting thresholds, but when we developed those one of the objectives we tried to accomplish was to minimize situations where one SG would have veto power by itself. The idea of taking another week as I view it was to try to come up with a seating plan that did a better job of honoring the NCA wishes. The RySG alternative proposal results in honoring the original choices of two of the NCA's choices compared to the random plan, which only honors one. It seems unwise to rule out a solution that has very strong support and honors more of the NCA preferences strictly on procedural or process grounds especially considering it was essentially an ad hoc process and not a Bylaws or Council Rules defined process. The RySG said that the random selection was acceptable but I need to emphasize that there was strong preference for the alternative solution that we proposed. Chuck
-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:33 AM To: Council GNSO Subject: [council] Appointment of NCA to Houses
Hi,
Since it does not appear that the 4 SGs managed to negotiate to a common acceptable position on the placement of the NCA appointees, and given that a week has passed since the meeting and the decision to give the council a week to try and find another acceptable solution to the lottery, I believe that we are now in the position of accepting the results of the lottery and allowing the 3 NCAs to start participating with their houses on the decisions concerning candidates for the chair position.
Thus, the NCA are allocated according to the following list as determined by the lottery:
Terry Davis - Contracted Parties House Olga Cavalli - Non Contracted Parties House Andrei Kolesnikov - Non Voting Seat
I will be writing up the process followed and notifying the Board and the Nomcom leadership of these results later today.
Thank you.
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