[arin-ppml] Advisory Council Position Petitions?

[John Curran]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Yesterday there was one petition for an AC member.  Today there's
> an additional petition, and a note from Marty to arin-discuss. ...
> I've moved to PPML as I think the people who interact with the AC
> the most, and care the most about who is on the AC are on PPML, not
> arin-discuss.
>
> Marty's message suggests multiple people were excluded from running
> for some reason, and we now have two petitions that seem to back
> up that assertion.  Are there going to be more petitions?  Can someone
> explain what happened?


Leo -

The NomCom is chartered with delivering a sufficient ballot for each  
election.  The ARIN Bylaws specify that such a ballot shall consist of  
the number of seats being filled + 1 as a minimum.  There is no  
maximum specified, nor any requirement to deliver all candidates to  
the ballot.  The NomCom selects those nominees that is feels are most  
qualified and builds a ballot for each election.  There is no  
assurance of selection, even if that has been the practice in the past.

This is exactly how the NomCom process was set up to function, as it  
was considered far better than the Board selecting new BoT and AC  
members (as in ARIN's original Bylaws) but still allowed for in-depth  
consideration of each candidate in closed session.  This process, by  
the way, is materially the same one used by other Internet  
organizations in their selection process.  The availability of a  
petition process is felt to be reasonable safety value to insure that  
candidates who feel that they are well-qualified despite the NomCom  
recommendation may take the matter to the community.

I welcome any and all suggestions for improvement of the process, but  
Marty was correct that this is not a matter of Internet number  
resource policy, so please send suggestions to me directly or to "arin- 
discuss" as desired.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN