Re: [council] Chait-Acting Chair-Current ChairNo chair

["Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@dninet.net>]

i too share caroline's feelings here and look forward to dennis chairing the
next meeting

ken stubbs
----- Original Message -----
From: Chicoine, Caroline <chicoinc@PeperMartin.com>
To: <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:02 PM
Subject: RE: [council] Chait-Acting Chair-Current ChairNo chair


> I believe we should commend Dennis for taking the time to try to help
> run a smooth show (and I think he has done a very good job to date) and
> don't really care what we call him (Big Kahuna?).  I also admire his
> thoughtful consideration of his nomination to the ICANN Board and
> decision to decline the nomination and commit himself to the Names
> Council.  I am grateful that someone has stepped up to the plate, but of
> course if others feel they wish to "chair" a meeting, I believe we
> should allow them to do so.  I was just under the impression there was
> not a huge waiting list.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amadeu Abril i Abril [mailto:Amadeu@nominalia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 12:30 PM
> To: Javier
> Cc: council@dnso.org
> Subject: [council] Chait-Acting Chair-Current ChairNo chair
>
>
> Javier wrote:
> >
> > At 13:15 29/09/99 +0100, Dennis Jennings wrote:
> > >As your (current) Chair,  ...
> >
> > The NC has no Chair (current or otherwise) .
> >
> > As a matter of fact, and to avoid this sort of confusion, I would like
> to
> > request that the next meeting be chaired by somebody else from another
> > constituency, rotating the chair, as we have been doing in the past.
>
> Javier,
>
> Let me disagree this time. Perhaps I am at the orign of the confusion.
> I was the one pusghin really hard to have someonbe chairing "periods"
> not only "telconferences". And to have some continuity inthat role. I
> am sure that the preious situation where each teleconf had a differnt
> chair (someitn¡mes without his(her prior knowledge) and no one was ·in
> charge of the administraiton·, ie, in charge of moving forard the
> agfenda and the remaining open issues, was the most important reason,
> for the less than succcessful role of the NC in the immediate past
> (with Snatiago as the clearest proff). This, and the lack of personal
> commitemnt form some members, indeed.
>
> I have forced the isutation in Santiago in the sense that Dennis
> accepted to be the chari for all incoming teleconferences up to LA,
> where Jonahtan has already been apoointed to be the chair.
>
> My interpretation, and this is waht I have been communicating to
> Dennis in private mails, is that he has the duty to act alos as "the
> voice of the agenda/pending work" between telecnferences. Taul and I
> spent ots of times discussing the meaning of NC reolutions. The best
> way to get to a conclusion is have the Chair of that teleconf(meeting
> "set the facts· (he could proof worng in his/her assumptionsm but that
> is another question,.,,,(,
>
> This is whym as U saudm I hgave pusshed Dennis, in public and
> private,m to take waht I think are his responsibiliites. Actring as
> ·acting chair" unti lLA. Indeed, he is not the apponted, offical, full
> chair. Just acting as such in default of an appoitned one.
>
> For the record, i also tried to convince the NC to elect a real chari
> for the same reasons, but the argument that the pNCshgould refrain
> form doing that and let that job to the permanent NC (even with lots
> of provisional members there.....) was shared among most of us. In the
> meanwhile, we need someone to keep the ball rolling, and I am
> perfeclty happy with Dennis doing that.
>
> OTOG, let me state form now on, as I said in Santiago that I oppose
> the idea of a rotating chair among the consituencies. +If we need a
> chair we elct one (as I think we should) based on hi(her capaciites
> and our preferences. Then we rotate among consituencies for co-chairng
> public meetings, so evryubody has his(her slice of glory, if so needed.
>
> As an aside, as I altready told to you both, many among us would be
> fvary gratefull if both of you wer not that eager to jump into
> eachibes0s throuat when theother sends one, any e-mail ;-))
>
> Amadeu, jsut going yo watch jow Barça beats Arsenal.
>