RE: [council] Election mechanism

[Theresa Swinehart <Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com>]

Dennis -

I understood from the call, as a result of points I raised, that there was
agreement that these mechanisms were to be posted while they were being
finalized so that everyone is aware of what is occurring. Javier's
specifically said in his note that you and Nigel should also forward yours.
I'm not sure what the difficulty is, unless I'm missing something, we'd
agreed to do this - I also don't know how we could keep to anytime frame
commitments if nothing about this discussion was posted in any of the
versions.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org] On Behalf Of
Dennis Jennings
Sent:	Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:19 PM
To:	'Javier'
Cc:	council@dnso.org
Subject:	RE: [council] Election mechanism

Javier,

We agreed to send them to the Berkman Centre for advice - not to publish
them.  We need to agree what we are doing before we publish confusing
messages.  After next week's teleconfernce we will publish theelection
procedures.

Please respect the agreements we reached today.

Thanks
Dennis

On Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:52 PM, Javier [SMTP:javier@aui.es]
wrote:
> Council,
>
> I have simplified my proposal based on the resolutions and
recommendations
> of the Names Council teleconference.
>
> Please find it here.
>
> Dennis and Nigel, can you please send to the secretariat the proposals
that
> you want published in the website.
>
> Javier
>
> PROPOSAL FOR
> ELECTION MECHANISM FOR ICANN BOARD DIRECTORS
>
> 1) Nomination of candidates will be done in the manner already
established
> by the Names Council.
>
> 2) Elections will take place during a time not inferior to five working
> days. Each member of the Names council will vote for three candidates.
> Votes will be sent to an address specially set up by the DNSO
secretariat.
> The secretariat will keep the votes secret until the end of the election
> period, and the end of which it will send, privatelly, to the Names
> Council, a list of all votes received by each candidate, specifying which
> Names Council members have voted for them.
>
> 3) The following candidates will be recognized as DNSO ICANN Board
members
>
> a) The candidate with the largest number of votes (Board Member "A").
>
> b) The candidate with the largest number of votes who is a citizen of a
> region  different from the region of Board Member "A"   (Board Member
"B").
>
> c) The candidate with the largest number of votes who is not a citizen
> of  the  regions of Board members "A" and "B"  (Board Member "C").
>
> 4) 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.
>
> 5) In case any of the three elected members of the Board has not received
> the support of at least 50% of the members of the Names Council, the
Names
> Council will hold a confirmation vote for all three candidates together.
If
> the three candidates do not receive the support of at least 50% of the
> Names Council, the elections will be considered invalid and the whole
> election process will be repeated.
>
> 6) If confirmed by the Names Council, 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) After the election process has finished, the Names Council will send
to
> the ICANN Board the names of the DNSO Board members as well as the terms
> that each one will serve. It will also make public the results of the
> elections, including the number of votes received by each candidate.