[rpd] Fwd: IANA Numbering Services Review Committee appointment

[Alan Barrett]

FYI.  Please discuss in the community-discuss list.

Alan Barrett

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
> Subject: IANA Numbering Services Review Committee appointment
> Date: 6 November 2015 15:15:59 +0400
> To: community-discuss at afrinic.net
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> Dear AFRINIC Community,
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> As part of the ongoing IANA oversight transition, the CRISP Team proposed that the RIRs should set up a Review Committee to review the performance of the IANA Numbering Services Operator.
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> See https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/Review-Committee-Charter_FINALclean.pdf for the charter of the IANA Numbering Services Review Committee.
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> Note that each of the five RIRs will need to appoint three members of the Review Committee.  Here are some relevant sections from the Charter:
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>> 4. The Review Committee will comprise 15 members, constituted by:
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>> (a)  two community appointees from each RIR region (who must not be RIR staff); and
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>> (b)  one RIR staff from the region (who will be a non-voting member).
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>> 5. Each RIR shall appoint its Review Committee members by a method of its own choosing.
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>> 6. Each RIR shall determine the term of appointment for its Review Committee members.
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> Now we need to figure out a procedure for AFRINIC to appoint the two community members and one staff member.
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> For the RIR staff member appointed to the Review Committee:  I propose that the CEO should appoint a staff member.
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> For the two community appointees, the following ideas come readily to mind:
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> A: The same two community members who are already elected to the NRO-NC/ASO-AC should automatically be appointed to the IANA Numbering Services Review Committee, in such a way that the same people always serve both roles.
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> B: We could have another election process, almost identical to the election process for the community representatives on the NRO-NC/ASO-AC, but with separate candidates and separate votes.  (Representatives are elected to staggered three-year terms.)
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> C: We could do something different.
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> In the interests of simplicity, I suggest that we choose option A, with the same people automatically serving on both the NRO-NC/ASO-AC and the IANA Numbering Services Review Committee.
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> This should be a community decision, so I invite discussion.  Note that any decision we make now can be changed in the future.
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> 
> Alan Barrett
> CEO, AFRINIC
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