Re: [council] Nomination / Voting procedures - DNSO ICANNBoardmember

[Richard Lindsay <richard@interq.ad.jp>]

Fellow pNC members,

I believe Javier's motion is an excellent start.  I do not believe
it is constructive to dismiss his proposal and to leave
this extremely critical point up to a committee, or sub-committee
or mini-sub-working group that has not come up with another
proposal.  I do not mean any disrespect here to any of the
members of this group, but if there is an alternative I think it
would be beneficial to put whatever work in progress has been
accomplished on the list, and let us all discuss it.

There is not enough time to have a perfect mechanism, and I think
we should meet the ICANN goal of having DNSO elected ICANN board
members in place by the LA meeting.  I don't think we should just
"try" to do this, we must.

Best regards,
Richard

PS - lots of mail over the weekend, was the weather bad? :-)


Javier wrote:

> After receiving Tony's and Dennis's comments, I have ammended my motion to
> comply with two points:
>
> 1) Set up a procedure to handle cases of ties.
> 2) Assure that we comply with the 50% support rule.
>
> Please see points 7 through 9.
>
> In order to deal with this issue as fast as possible in the teleconference,
> I propose that all ammendments be sent at least 24 hours before the
> teleconference, and, if not accepted before, be voted on right before the
> motion is voted.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> I propose the following motion for our next teleconference:
>
> Resolved that:
>
> 1) Any person nominated by a member of the GA and supported by at least
> nine other members of the DNSO before october 8th, 1999 will be considered
> as candidate for ICANN Board membership by the DNSO.
>
> 2) A public comment e-mail address will be opened immediatly. All
> nominations a support for nominations should be sent to this address. No
> other nominations or shows of support will be considered.
>
> 3) A public call for nominations in the GA list and other ICANN lists will
> be done as soon as the list is set up.
>
> 4) The election will take place between october 8th and october 15th, 1999.
> Each member of the Names Council will cast three votes for three different
> candidates. Votes must be sent to the Names Council mailing list.
>
> 5) After the closing of the voting period, the secretariat of the DNSO will
> send to the Names Council a list of the Candidates with the number of votes
> received by each one of them. The following candidates will be recognized
> as DNSO ICANN Board members:
>
> a) The candidate with the largest number of votes (Board Member "A").
>
> b) If there are candidates from regions different from the region of Board
> Member "A", the candidate from another region with the largest number of
> votes will also become a DNSO member of the ICANN Board (Board Member "B").
> If there are no candidates from other regions, the candidates in second and
> third place will become Board Members "B" and "C".
>
> c) If there are candidates from regions different to those of Board Members
> "A" and "B", the candidate with the largest number of votes who is not from
> those regions will be considered Board member "C". If there are no
> candidates from other regions, the candidate with the largest number of
> votes (excluding Board members "A" and "B") will become Board Member "C".
>
> 6) Board member "A" will serve for three years. Board member "B" will serve
> for two years and Board "Member "C" will serve for one year.
>
> 7)
>
> a) In case of a tie in any of the first three positions that leaves unclear
> who the elected members of the ICANN Board are, the Names Council will hold
> a three-day mini-election with the candidates who are in the tie. In case
> of a new tie, the mini-election will be repeated up to three times until
> the tie is broken. If after three time the tie is not broken, a new full
> one-week election will be held for the vacant position(s), excluding those
> who have been clearly elected, and including all other original candidates,
> except those from regions that are already represented by dully elected
> DNSO ICANN Board members.
>
> If the tie occurrs in second position, Board Member  "A" will  -immediatly
> after the main election- be considered as a valid member of the ICANN Board
> (unless he has not received support from at least 50% of the Names Council,
> see point 8). If the tie takes place in third position, Board members "A"
> and "B" will -immedialty after the main election- be considered as members
> of the ICANN Board (unless they have not received support from at least 50%
> of the Names Council, see point 8)
>
> 8) In case one of candidates elected does not receive the vote of a least
> 50% of the members of the Names Council, the NC will hold a single
> three-day YES/NO vote to see if this candidate receives the affirmative
> support of at least 50% of the Names Council. If he does not receive it, he
> will be eliminated from the list of candidates and the post-voting
> procedure (points 5, 6, 7 and 8) will be repeated, excluding the name of
> this candidate. Of course candidates who have received, in the main
> election, a 50% affirmative support, will -immedialty after the main
> election- be considered members of the ICANN Board, as they will also be
> elected under the new tally.
>
> 9) In case the election process does not yield three valid candidates, a
> new election will be held for the vacant positions, including a two-week
> nomination period and a one-week voting period.
>
> 9) The Names Council will send to the ICANN Board the names of its elected
> representatives as soon as their names are known. In case of a tie or a
> vote of support, the Names Council will send to the Board the names of the
> clearly elected representatives, and communicate when it believes the other
> names will be available.
>
> Javier