RE: [council] FW: [ga] GA Adcom Election Committee

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

Ted -

It does raise several points that the NC has been discussing. Likewise I'm
not against the proposal, but think the NC should address the questions you
raise below. Suggest we add this to the NC call agenda, not to thoroughly
discuss in one call, but rather to have short discussion on how to move
forward on responding to the questions you identified below.

E.g., just off the top of my head, some thoughts on how to move forward
include: e.g., postpone discussion until after DNSO ICANN Board members
voted on; identify questions and have on-line discussion followed up with a
NC call, etc., assign issue to a working group, etc.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org] On Behalf Of
Shapiro, Ted
Sent:	Monday, October 04, 1999 10:51 AM
To:	'[council]'
Subject:	[council] FW: [ga] GA Adcom Election Committee

This is not to say that I am against this proposal. But, instead it raises a
point that I mentioned after the Santiago meetings. What is GA consensus?
Who determines it? When do we have it? I raise this again because as we go
forward there will be more and more calls for GA consensus on various
points. I thought that the NC had a role in determinig GA consensus. Any
thoughts?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Nii N. Quaynor [mailto:quaynor@ghana.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 4:04 PM
To: General Assembly of the DNSO
Subject: [ga] GA Adcom Election Committee



Dear All,

There is consensus that an elected GA Adcom should be established. We have
subsequently received a number of suggestions on preferred election
procedures and also relations to the NC, including potential bylaws
modifications.

In the meantime, we should advance the process by forming a small group, an
"election committee" from the GA to draft the election announcement and
manage the voting. We believe that a simple method is  preferred and each GA
member should have a single vote to cast for each regional seat.

Members of the election committee, in fairness to all contestants, should be
persons who do not intend to run for a GA Adcom seat.

This is therefore a call for three voluteers to kick of the process. The
volunteers should be recommended and the volunteer must accept.

The election committee needs to be in-place by October, 9. We allow for 2
weeks of nominating candidates for the Adcom and a week for voting
just-in-time for LA when the Adcom will be installed.

Nii