[rpd] Nomcom request for feedback

[Owen DeLong]

> On Jun 6, 2019, at 00:09 , Iyedi Goma <iyedigoma at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear community,
> 
> Veuillez trouvez la version française ci dessous.
> 
> The nomination committee received a question about the process for the election of two PDWG co-chairs as one of the open seats is for a two-year team and the other open seat is for a one-year term. The nomination committee contacted the Afrinic elections committee to request the process document for the elections. The nomination committee was informed that there isn’t any documented process for the election of two PDWG co-chairs.
> 
> The nomination committee recommends  that the process for the election of the two PDWG co-chairs should be documented so that the working group understand how  the process works.
> 
> There were nine nominations for the two the PDWG co-chair seats.  After reviewing the nominations, the nomination committee found that  there only four candidates  who submitted  the required information before the endtime. The nomination committee was contacted by four other nominees  as their names did not appear in the announcement which was sent to the RPD mailing list.

When did the nominating committee request the “required information” from the candidates and when was this “end time”?

The charge leveled by Abdulkarim is that the committee sent out a request from an undocumented email address during a muslim holiday on a Sunday requesting that the information be provided no later than Monday.

If that’s true, I’d argue that the timing of the request and the end time is quite suspect and not a legitimate process.

> The nomination committee would like to solicit the feedback of the PDWG on the above by Friday 7  of June at 23:59 UTC

Despite the tight timeline offered, here is my feedback:

You are doing yourself no favors in this circumstance setting a similarly tight deadline for community feedback (approximately 17 hours).

Is this really what we can expect from the nominating committee? This is no way to conduct an election.

A candidate should be given at least 7 days to respond to an urgent request from the nominating committee. A request which should have been made at the beginning of the process should allow at least 30 days for a response.

Allowing less than 24 hours is absurd.

Owen

> 
> 
> 
> Cher membre de la communauté
> 
> Le comité de nomination avait reçu une question d’un membre de la communauté lors d’une session de sensibilisation sur le processus de répartition des deux postes  de co-présidence pour le PDWG. Il est important de souligner que les deux mandatures ne possèdent pas la même durée, un poste pour une année et une seconde pour deux années, la question est celle de savoir comment on attribue les postes à chacun des postulants.
> Au regard de l'importance de la question le comité de nomination avait contacté AFRINIC pour comprendre s’il y avait des documents  qui soutenaient ledit processus. Ce que nous avons compris de la réponse du comité d’ élection qu il  existe pas de procédure écrite proprement dite.
> 
> Le comité de nomination recommande fortement que le processus électoral  soit rédigé et validé afin de faciliter la tâche du groupe de travail.
> 
> 
> En ce qui concerne les candidatures pour les élections  de la co-présidence  du PDWG , le comité de nomination avait reçu neuf prétendus candidatures. Après la phase de  collecte d'information supplémentaire  nous avons  reçus que quatres dossiers de candidatures. Après la publication des candidatures le comité de nomination a été contacté par quatre des autres prétendus  et ils ont soumis leur dossiers.
> 
> Dans le souci de transparence et d’équité nous souhaitons solliciter l’avis du PDWG sur les éléments évoqués. Le comité de nomination souhaiterait avoir votre retour d’ici ce vendredi 7 juin à 23h59 TUC.
> 
> 
> 
> Serge-Parfait Goma
> 
> Afrinic 2019 Nomcom Chair
> _______________________________________________
> RPD mailing list
> RPD at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/attachments/20190606/0938def7/attachment.html>