RE: [council] Some Thoughts on the Elections Process

["Joe Sims" <Joe_Sims@jonesday.com>]

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Dennis is correct that there is no specific requirement in the bylaws that
the Directors selected by the DNSO must be geographically diverse.
Instead, there is a probably unworkable aggregate provision, which is
highly likely to be changed (the staff will likely recommend that the
bylaws provide that each SO's Directors must be from different regions,
unless specifically provided to the contrary in the bylaws or otherwise).
Therefore, I suggest that the prudent and most desirable course for the
DNSO would be to ensure that its three Directors are citizens of three
different regions.  This would make it virtually certain that whatever the
ultimate bylaws requirement, the DNSO Directors would meet it.  (I am aware
of the discussion re: citizenship vs. residency, but citizenship is
currently the standard and is not likely to change in the relevant time
frame.  Of course, if the Directors were both citizens and residents of
three different regions, this would render this issue moot for the time
being.)


                                                                  
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To:   "'Amadeu Abril i Abril'" <Amadeu@nominalia.com>
cc:   "'Javier'" <javier@aui.es>, "'council@dnso.org'"<council@dnso.org>
      (bcc: Joe Sims/JonesDay)
Subject:  RE: [council] Some Thoughts on the Elections Process




Amadeu,

No - I meant exactly what I said.

If I read the rules correctly, these is not a requirement of these
particular elections that a geographically diverse outcome is achieved.

The Names Council could decide on this, as I said.

If it does decide - and I would support such a decision, - it needs to be
explicit, and get broad agreement so that there are no future disputes.

To make it even clearer, I propose that

"The Names Council agree that no two of the three ICANN Board Directors
elected by the DNSO may be residents (citizens ?) of the same geographic
region."

Dennis

On Monday, September 13, 1999 11:47 AM, Amadeu Abril i Abril
[SMTP:Amadeu@nominalia.com] wrote:
> Dennis Jennings wrote:
> >
> [...]
>
> > My point was that the rules (as I read them) do NOT require a
> > geographically diverse outcome of these particular DNSO elections.
> >
> > The Names Council could decide that a geographically diverse outcome is
> > required - and make this explicit.  But it needs to decide this, not
just
> > assume it.  It also needs to make sure that this decision is supported
by
> > the Constituencies and the ICANN Board.
> >
> Is this seious, Dennis? Do your really mean that you are not sure that
> "most" NC members and "most" constituenncies really favour
> geographical diversity as an output, or you are making a procedural
> point about how excplicit this should be?
>
> In any case, in could hardly be more explicit in the Bylaws, and the
> discussions and in our constituency, at least.
>
> Best regard,
>
> Amadeu
>

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