Milton and Mary
Thank you for all your work.
Since I did the preparatory work for the next GigaNet elections I feel inclined to give a few comments to your proposals (Milton):
1. Voting method: In my opinion it would be a proportionnate solution if a member would have 6 votes, but could not allocate more than 2 votes to the same candidate. This allows a certain concentration and does not cause the risk that a few members could heavily influence the outcome by agreeing to give six votes to the same candidate. This solution would also be slightly more flexible than V2 (by allowing for example 2 votes for a candidate and 1 vote for 4 other candidates).
2. Geographic representation: G2 makes more sense since it allows to better count on expertise; I fully support the principle of geographic representation, but other aspects could also be of importance which are not covered by pure geography (Asian person living in US, white person living in South Africa). I would count on the reasonableness of voters not to have a too unilaterally "composed" body).
3. Committee structure: looks fine.
Best
Rolf

Milton L Mueller schrieb:
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Greetings members,

Here at Cairo we have had some very useful discussions with Board members, ALAC and the business constituencies about the shape of the new Noncommercial Stakeholders Group. We have promised to give the Board Governance Committee a rough draft of the charter for the new NCSG by the end of this month.

There were a couple of issues or decisions that were controversial or just difficult to know what is best. We wanted to solicit your opinion about that. Please give us your input on the items below

 

Two of the questions relate to electing GNSO Councilors. The other is just a question about organizational structure

 

In the future we will need to elect 6 GNSO Councilors.

 

Voting method for GNSO Council representatives

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V1) Should each member give one vote to 6 candidates?

V2) Should we allow members to concentrate and distribute their votes, e.g., assign all 6 votes to one candidate, or 3 votes to 2 candidates, or 2 votes to 3 candidates?

The concentrated vote method would increase the chances that minorities with strong preferences would be represented on the Council. It would, as a result, decrease the solidarity of the NCSG as a voting bloc and reduce the need for Council candidates to try to represent the stakeholder group as a whole. Most of the members meeting here favored Option 1 because they wanted Council members to have a broader appeal, but at least one favored the concentrated method. There are also some concerns about the procedural complexity of concentrated voting.

 

Geographic representation

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There are 6 Council seats and 5 ICANN geographic regions. What geographic representation rule do we follow?

Two different options were proposed:

G1) A simple rule that no region can have more than two (2) council seats

G2) A rule that at least 4 regions must be represented in the outcome.

I think there was agreement that the GNSO Council position is important and very demanding, so no one should get elected to it solely because of their regional origin; they should compete with candidates from other regions on the basis of their qualifications and commitment to the job. So that is why we did not just say that the Council seats should

 

Rule G1 would mean that you could have a minimum of three regions represented on the Council (2 from each of 3 regions)

Rule G2 would mean that 4 regions would be represented, but one region might have as many as 3 of the 6 seats

 

Executive Committee – Policy Committee Structure

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Here we are just asking for comment on organizational structure.

 

We seemed to come to an agreement on:

An _Executive Committee_ that consists of:

The executive committee handled administrative tasks such as membership reviews, fund allocations, meeting agendas, voting

 

A _Policy committee_ that consists of:

Elected GNSO Councilors

One representative from each constituency

The Policy Committee

 

What do you think of this structure?

Apologies for the length of this message, but we do need your input on these issues