Thank you.

Casey

Quoting Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]>:

> Dear all,
>
> As already noted our charter has rules about gender
> and regional balance within our councillors. Specifically,
> it says (§3.1) that
>
> "To the maximum extent possible, no more than two (2) NCSG GNSO
> Council Representatives can be declared resident of the same
> geographic region as defined by ICANN. Reasonable efforts should be
> taken to recruit nominees so that all geographical regions may be
> represented by the NCSG GNSO Council Representatives. Reasonable
> efforts should also be taken to ensure gender balance and in no
> circumstance should there be fewer than 2 members of any gender."
>
> That is a bit general and open to interpretation, so I wrote
> a concrete procedure for applying them and posted it to
> to the election-reform list, cf.
>
> https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-July/000022.html
>
> and it was then discussed and approved by the NCSG EC.
>
> So, here it is. (The message linked to above contains a bit
> more explanation about the reasoning for those intersted.)
>
> ******
>
> In council election:
>
> 1. Candidates are sorted by vote count. If electing N first ones would
> not result in fewer than two representatives of either gender or more
> than two of any region in the council, they shall be elected.
>
> 2. If there would be fewer than two of either gender, minority gender
> candidates shall be elected over majority gender ones until there'd be
> two of them in the council. If there're multiple minority gender
> candidates available, those satisfying the two-per-region limit shall
> be given first priority, then ones from otherwise non-represented
> regions, after that the ones with most votes.
>
> 3. If there are not enough minority gender candidates to achieve the
> required minimum of two, their slots shall be left empty, to be filled
> by the Executive Committee with temporary alternate appointments, with
> the proviso that majority gender representatives may be appointed for
> a maximum of one month at a time until a minority gender one can be
> appointed.
>
> 4. If there would be more than two of any one region and there are
> candidates from less-represented region, the slots over two for the
> overrepresented region shall go preferentially to a candidate from a
> region that has no representative at all, after that to one that has
> only one. More than two councillors from one region shall be
> acceptable only in case there are no candidates left from other
> regions.
>
> 5. In event of a tie, minority gender and region shall be given
> priority as above until the requirement of at least two of each gender
> and at most two per region are satisfied. After that, priority shall
> be given to any otherwise non-represented region, then to minority
> gender representative. If tie still remains unresolved, winner shall
> be determined by lot.
>
> 6. In case there are some 1-year and some 2-year slots to be filled,
> 2-year slots shall be given to those with most votes from the set
> determined by rules above.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen