[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Nominating Committee

[Ted Hardie]

Greetings,

As a reminder, the nominations committee charter is here:
https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/committees/nominations/
.  It does not require specific backgrounds for any of the board members
who serve, but it does require "at least two people who are neither
Officers of the Board nor Trustees nor employees nor contractors of the
corporation." and that the committee reflect the breadth of the community.

For a year in which two of the four members of the Board come from a single
community (this year the Chapters, other years each of the other appointing
bodies), it would be very difficult to require one of the two remaining
members to serve on this committee, as it would constrain the time they had
for other committees.  Charles Mok, for example, as chair of the governance
committee already has a pretty full plate, and Maureen Hilyard serves on
the election committee.  The election committee members and governance
committee may not overlap.

Each year we do encourage members of the community to serve on the
committee; Lars Eggert and Emmanuel Elolo are currently serving, and I
encourage any member of the community to volunteer for it in the future.
It's a valuable service you can offer to ISOC.

best regards,

Ted Hardie

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 3:42 PM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via
Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> as you know, the ISOC NomCom is due make up a slate of qualified
> candidates for consideration and potential election to the Board in the
> Organisational and the Chapter elections.
>
> Looking at this year's NomCom and its rules, I am surprised that there
> does not appear to be a requirement that at least one Chapter selected
> Board member needs to be on this important Committee.
>
> Is this a problem? How can the NomCom make informed choices about the
> needs of Chapters if there isn't even one Board members selected by
> Chapters on this committee? Is this something which the Governance
> Committee should be looking at?
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
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