[rpd] Eligibility Criteria for PDWG chairs

[Fernando Frediani]

Hello

I do not believe PDWG can self organize given the current circumstances 
we have been going on. It is beyond any reasonable scenario what we are 
going one here and we cannot pretend we have been able to self organize 
to make the things happen when there is echo chamber the repeat thousand 
time the same thing over and over and so many misinterpretations of the 
rules including by the Board of Directors.

Regarding the term "Selected" that doesn't necessarily mean election or 
consensus, means selection, so who is responsible to select the 
Co-Chair. It could be by either ways, so there is not need to force 
interpretation to the preferred mode, just because it was used before.

I personally already manifested my position totally against any 
consensus to select people and think that is pure utopia specially in 
the situation we find ourselves.
So I reinforce my suggestion to have a NomCom (which is not the 
Secretariat) to filter candidates and then a ranked vote for those eligible.

Fernando


On 27/03/2021 15:19, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele wrote:

> Hello Daniel,

>

> I think what Noah  was referring to was the invocation of section 3.3 

> in part which says:

>

> */If the Working Group Chair is unable to serve his or her full term, 

> the Working Group mayselecta replacement to serve the remainder of the 

> term. If the Working Group Chairs are unable to attend the Public 

> Policy Meeting, the Working Group shall nominate a Chair for the 

> session. Anyone present at the meeting, whether in person or by remote 

> participation, may participate in the selectionprocess for a temporary 

> Chair./*

>

> If memory serves me right ( which i'm pretty sure it does) what 

> happened in Botswana as i was also present at that meeting and infact 

> had the honour to do the nomination of Dewole on floor of the the PPM 

> was that Seun resigned, and the ECOM which is powered by AFRINIC staff 

> made the call at the meeting. NoMCoM was not involved.

>

> I believe that Madhvi is doing is in absolute order given the 

> circumstances we find ourselves. Therefore, this is not a matter that 

> neccessary needs to be going before the NoMCoM. The PDWG can self 

> organise and that is what is happening here. The whole idea is to 

> drive a concensus by the secretariat based on serving the interest of 

> the PDWG.

>

> I believe that the conversation should be, how we get the interim 

> chairs "*SELECTED*" from within the working group? I also do not see 

> any word around "ELECTION" but selection by the WG.

> We need to be mindful of the words in the CPM.

>

> Bear in mind that my comments are made as a RPD community member and 

> not a comment based on any hat i currently wear in the community.

>

>

> Caleb Ogundele

> Community Member

>

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:32 PM Daniel Yakmut via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net 

> <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>> wrote:

>

>     I am happy you said "coordination with NomCom Chair". So I expect

>     we should be having NomCOM by now, and they handling the

>     selection/election process of the Co-Chairs going forward.

>

>     The Secretariat providing the support necessary for the NomCom to

>     function.

>

>

>     Simply,

>

>     Daniel

>

>     On 27/03/2021 3:00 pm, Noah wrote:

>>

>>     On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, 14:18 Daniel Yakmut, <yakmutd at googlemail.com

>>     <mailto:yakmutd at googlemail.com>> wrote:

>>

>>

>>         AfriNIC has always been Secretariat for PDWG. But I can't

>>         remember it mutating into a NomCom.

>>

>>

>>     Dan,

>>

>>     Well as an example, when we were in Botswana in 2016, where

>>     within an hour of Seun resignation after the PPM, the WG selected

>>     Dewole as co-chair with the coordination from policy liason

>>     (AFRINIC Staff) and nomcom chair.

>>

>>     This coordination from the secretariat is not new chief.

>>

>>     Noah

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