[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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