Re: "I would love to be able to tell everyone how I think the selections made did or didn't live up to my expectations" I'll be happy to comment on that... most of the folks selected by the NonCom to sit on the ALAC in prior years were duds. When coupled with the duds selected by their regions through popularity contests, we wound up with an organization that has been disappointingly ineffective. --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Ross Rader <ross@tucows.com> wrote:
From: Ross Rader <ross@tucows.com> Subject: Re: 2008 ICANN Nominating Committee Announces Selections To: dannyyounger@yahoo.com Cc: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 10:20 AM On Sep 6, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Danny Younger wrote:
Was an Assessment Organization in fact hired? Or is
this also
something you can't talk about?
Yes, we did use an outside firm to help us establish a baseline that we could use to help us with the evaluation of the candidates.
BTW - the processes used by the Nominating Committee are not "secret", but information about the Candidates and the specifics of the deliberations are. I think the restrictions are reasonable and lend themselves to attracting the best candidates. I would love to be able to tell everyone how I think the selections made did or didn't live up to my expectations - in fact, given that I'd like to this again, it would be in my interests to do so, but the fact is, its just not fair to the people that didn't get picked to go into the gory details. Every year, excellent candidates get passed over - its just not fair to them to have these details publicized.
/ross