[rpd] Call for interest for PDWG chairs closed & Way forward

[Fernando Frediani]

+1 to this and previous Noah's message.

Fernando

On 08/04/2021 11:05, Noah wrote:

> Hi Mike

>

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2021, 12:20 Mike Silber, <silber.mike at gmail.com 

> <mailto:silber.mike at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

>     Thanks for the explanation Paul

>

>     While I appreciate your feedback, this raises further questions:

>

>       * can an invalid nomination be remedied as you are now

>         suggesting? This is not a case of an error (such as a typo)

>         being corrected, but a key requirement that was irregular. I

>         am not sure that we can allow a nominator to be swapped out

>         like this when it turns out the nomination was invalid?

>

>

> Folks had enough time to find suitable nominator and seconder known to 

> them. It turns out some of the nominees used fraudulent nominator. 

> This speaks a lot about the nominees and we as a WG need to take this 

> stuff serious when folks are dishonest.

>

>       * what does this say about the motivation that was included in

>         the nomination? Was this written by the purported nominator or

>         by the nominee or someone else? What does that say about the

>         nomination?

>

>

> If a nominator denies ever supporting a nominee and even asks the 

> secretariat to remove the nominator details due to privacy concerns, 

> it means that they as purported nominator never wrote the said 

> motivation for the said candidate and as such it was someone else. 

> That level of dishonesty can not be tolerated by the WG.

>

>       * what about the requirement for the nomination to be seconded?

>

>

> This was also lacking on those purported nomination applications yet 

> very important which is why the application forms had such a requirement.

>

>       * the process is silent on a member’s ability to nominate 

more

>         than one candidate.

>

>

> While the nomination is silent,  a single members attempt to nominate 

> two different candidates for the same co-chair position leaves a bad 

> test in my mouth and must be rejected.

>

>       * It seems rather strange for a single nominator to make

>         multiple nominations.

>

>

> Indeed and we as a WG must reject any signs of a potential capture of 

> the PDP.

>

>       * Certainly something to be covered in a process improvement.

>         Possibly a question best left to the election process.

>

>

> Certainly just like the requirement that a nominee, nominator and 

> seconder can not be from the same Organizational and I remember seeing 

> one of the application had the nominee and nominator from the same Org.

>

>

> Noah

>

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