Appeals Team Selection Report

Nomcom for Appeals Team, Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus 
by Izumi Aizu (as a Non-voting Chair)

February 6, 2007

Here is the Report on Appeals Team Selection process and its outcome.

2006
Oct 4
Avri Doria announced the results of the Charter Votes including that of Appeals Team Selection method: 35 in favor of using a Nomcom and 9 in favor of voting, thus it was decided to use Nomcom for Appeals Team selection.

Oct 6
After the Caucus endorsed the result, Avri called for Nomcom Chair recommendations with several preferred criteria.

Nov 17
Avri announced that Izumi Aizu volunteered and was selected as the non-voting Chair of the Nomcom for Appeals Team.

Nov 20
Izumi called for 25 volunteers to be the candidate for Nomcom with the suggested time line – Drawing on Dec 17 and the Nomcom would start on Dec 20. 
The target number of volunteers was set as 25, to select five members by adopting publicly verifiable random selection procedure as Avri had proposed and endorsed by the Caucus. 
Avri made the list of volunteers available at: http://www.igcaucus.org/2006-AT-volunteers.html

Dec 11
A total of 25 individuals volunteered by Dec. 11, as shown at above URL.

Dec 16
Avri ran the random selection process with the pre-announced seeds after they became available.

Dec 17
Izumi announced those selected as the Nomcom members:
Bret Fausett, Milton Mueller, Maja Andjelkovic, Adam Peake, Ralf Bendrath

Dec 23
Nomcom started to discuss about the Time line and Criteria for the Appeals Team selection.

2007
Jan 8
The Time line and Criteria were announced on the Governance list. There were considerable discussions followed on the list about the criteria and some modification was made accordingly.

Jan 10
Call for Nomination to Appeals Team was announced on the Governance list:
10 nominations were set as the minimum target and deadline for nomination was set as Jan 21. Nomcom also proposed the Qualification for the nominees as follows:
We expect that the successful candidate should be a person with thoughtful and unbiased consideration and have a stated (and demonstrated) commitment to consultation and dialogue with the community
Nomination method was also announced on the list. Nominees were requested to submit their statement to accept the nomination and indicate their commitment to consultation and dialogue with the community.

Jan 21
Following 10 individuals were (self) nominated:
Jeremy Shtern, Nnenna Nwaknma, Rishi Chawla, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Avri Doria, Jeremy Malcolm, Dave Kissoondoyal, Sylvia Caras, Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Willie Currie
Avri made the list of nominees with their gender, region, nomination and support, vote history and links to the statement and published at: 
http://www.igcaucus.org/IGC-candidates-2007-AT.html 

Jan 24
Nomcom team discussed the selection method on the list and agreed with it as summarized below:
First round: each member votes five. Whoever gets all five votes in the first round becomes the Appeals Team. Then see the remaining balance, discuss and re-vote until Nomcom reaches the final consensus.

Jan 31
Nomcom team could not finalize the selection as some candidates had not sent their statements in time. Nomcom announced to extend the selection deadline to Feb 6.

Two members received all five votes and became the Appeals Team member in the first round. A round of discussions followed which selected one more person, another round for another person; each received full support of all Nomcom members. The last round went to select the remaining one seat and Nomcom came to a consensus in the end.

The factors discussed included, inter alia, past credits, potential quality, geographic diversity, and gender diversity to see if they meet the criteria agreed.

Feb 6
The following five individuals are selected as the Appeals Team members:
Name	Region	Gender	
Rishi Chawla	Asia	M	
Willie Currie	Africa	M	
Avri Doria	North America/Europe	F	
Nnenna Nwaknma	Africa	F	
Jeremy Shtern	North America	M	

Congratulations for the selected members, and thank you for all the contributions and the support from all of our Caucus friends, especially to all those who were nominated and accepted it, and to Avri Doria, without whose dedication, it would not be possible. Finally, it was a good learning opportunity for us all, and it was fun for me indeed.

Izumi Aizu
Non-voting Chair, Nomcom for Appeals Team