Re: [council] Election mechanism

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

Nigel,

I have been away - and the real world pressures are intense at the 
moment (things like raising venture funding for companies., etc.)  
Apologies that I did not reply.

Dennis

Date sent:      	Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:10:31 +0200
From:           	Nigel Roberts <nigel@roberts.co.uk>
Subject:        	Re: [council] Election mechanism
To:             	Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com
Copies to:      	Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie, 'Javier' <javier@aui.es>, council@dnso.org

> I think Dennis and I could probably easily merge our proposals following
> a short discussion.
> 
> Dennis: do you think we could confer over the weekend to see if this is
> possible??
> 
> 
> Nigel
> 
> Theresa Swinehart wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 


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