Iliya, thanks for the explanation.

My view is that any winnowing process cannot be hidden from view.
Must be seen to be impartial or it will be meaningless.

Thanks,

Adam



At 12:27 PM +0200 8/21/04, Iliya Nickelt wrote:
>On 21 Aug 2004 at 14:33, Adam Peake wrote:
>>  This sudden interest from the EC in WSIS after deciding (and not
>>  informing the members) that the NCUC would not be taking part in the
>>  ICANN "WSIS Workshop Planning Group" seems a bit of a change of
>>  heart.
>
>The EC did not decide upon details of our WSIS participation. Milton has
>discussed his position over the main list, and I also think it this is
>something that the whole constituency should decide upon.
>
>As an EC member I see it that way: We have this chance to independendly
>propose names for the WGIG, but have to come up with it relatively fast.
>A formal election seems to be very complicated for the "willowing"
>process, that's why Milton proposed the filtering by EC until all are
>happy. I agree that we should also include our policy body (I for my side
>feel pretty incompetend to make a decision). When we have too many strong
>candidates that we (NCUC) cannot decide upon, we may have to vote
>somehow, again, all of NCUC. Anyway, sounds like a lot of work.
>
>>  And it's important that any future position statement from the NCUC
>>  on this go through the processes we have in the charter (a policy
>>  committee issue, not the administrative EC?)
>True.
>
>>  Anyway.  Some transparency please.  Please open the EC archive, and
>>  backdate a couple of weeks so we can understand how this came about.
>It was Milton's proposal during our last chat meeting. There was no long
>discussion about it. As I said, I saw it as a proposal to find a "modus
>vivendi", not a way of "forcing decisions by setting the agenda" as so
>common for ICANN.
>
>>  Kind of related -- did Frannie take over the NA Executive Committee seat?
>Yes, she already participated and even got the gavel ( ;-) because she
>entered the channel first)
>
>         --iliya