I'm here at ICANN 62 in Panama City
we're in being joined by members of the
2018 nominating committee or Nam Kham
so hey Jamil Han spitter hoenn and David
Ashcroft gentleman it's a pleasure to
see you all again so give me an update
on the 2018 nam khan where does the work
of the committee stand and how is it
work on so far well we're all of us at
the end in the next two or three days
and what we did in this meeting in this
stage and in panama has been to a final
selections so we have a final slate for
the board a final slate for the a lack
north america like Europe and also the
CC NSO and what we're doing is trying to
basically find our final selections for
those slots and hopefully announce that
in a few weeks afterwards is anything
you want to highlight about these years
and I'm calm
well I'm glad you asked actually this
year has been slightly different we have
spent our first intersessional
face-to-face in actually trying to
select candidates it was an experiment
to see how it would go and actually went
really really well
we found that both the combination of
making sure that we met face to face and
that we actually considered every single
application and so every everyone got a
fair shot you know that it went really
really well so I think that was one of
the main things plus the amount of time
that we've taken to actually interview
and actually consider candidates as
being probably three times more than
we've done before again that was an
experiment to see how it would work and
actually work pretty well Damon now that
your chair liked does that mean you'll
be chair next year can you gonna explain
how that's gonna work sure absolutely
the intent is that I would be chair next
year however that final determination
will be up to the board and what the
board will do is they will look at some
reviews that are that are completed of
myself and its ahed and hans-peter they
will consider those reviews and then
they will make a final determination as
to who the chair and chair electives for
the 2019 NomCom so what's gonna be your
focus as a chair after observing the on
become leadership team from the inside
well I think next year what I want to
focus on is sort of building on the
strengths that previous stomp comms have
including this one and I think the two
big things that I want to focus on next
year are going to be continuing the
improvement of transparency of the
NomCom I think it's important that the
munity understands where we're at in our
process what we're doing and what's
coming up next that they have a good
understanding of as to what's going on
within the NomCom second thing is I want
to continue to build upon the
relationships between the NomCom the
Board of Directors and the other
supporting organizations that we fill
positions in I think it's very important
that the NomCom members have a really
good working knowledge of what's going
on within the board and in those
organizations since we are appointing
members to them
Hans what kind of candidate qualities
were important to this year's committee
as its elected as candidates well rather
than to go into the details on exactly
that I can tell you that the committee
has been quite some time in establishing
role description and criteria that they
will evaluate the candidates for and
that this has been published on on the
website so taking all the input from the
board advice from the supporting
organizations and so on and spending
quite a lot of time preparing that
criteria rather than just doing that as
everybody sees fit in the process it's
been a really joint issue to bring the
community committee to a common
understanding of what they're looking
for and all that's public on the
websites you can go and look at all the
details then well thanks again for
taking some time to meet with me and I
hope the rest meeting goes great