RE: [council] FYI. Caroline proposal was sent by Kathryn to thencdnhc*BEFORE* even put on the dnso.org

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

Elisabeth, thanks for forwarding.

Kathy -

To be honest, I have to express some concern here -- I realize you were not
at the LA meeting. However, I'd assumed you got a debriefing on the NC
meeting, or looked at the notes/transcript on what was discussed, and what
action items the NC agreed to take.

The draft Caroline forwarded concerned GA Chair, request for nominations,
dates, etc., which the NC had discussed not only on the NC conference call
prior to the LA meeting, but also at the LA meeting. It was for an agreed
upon action item, and was forwarded to the NC to formalize and get signoff
on how drafted - i.e., get comments on whether it accurately reflected the
NC discussions, dates that we'd agreed to, and whether it made sense, as
written (i.e., were there any typos). Additionally, obviously, if there were
any glaring errors about reflecting the NC discussions/agreements on issue,
NC members would have also caught those. The draft wasn't reopening an
already held (in public forums) substantive discussion.

I was therefore surprised, and somewhat confused that I ended up seeing
Caroline's draft on the GA list. I wasn't sure how or why it ended up there,
but also what kind of input and comments were being sought, and why, since I
thought we'd concluded this discussion at the public NC meeting in LA.

Please note, my concern has nothing to do with transparency - reaching the
point of formalization was the result of the discussions on the issue and
decision how to proceed, etc., all held in public forums.

I hope that as the NC we are not adopting this pattern for every draft, or
discussion, that are follow-up or formalization for agreed upon action items
in NC public forums. I like to get or provide input - all NC members should
have a chance to have a quick review when we formalize action items.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org] On Behalf Of
Elisabeth Porteneuve
Sent:	Friday, November 12, 1999 4:27 AM
To:	council@dnso.org
Subject:	[council] FYI. Caroline proposal was sent by Kathryn to the
ncdnhc*BEFORE* even put on the dnso.org


All,

From the attached below, you will see that yesterday Caroline proposal
(see to {ELISABETH, WHERE????]) were transmitted to the NCDNH list,
before any comments to the council, and before I sent an official
one to all lists as well as to all Constituencies liaisons
(I did it within 2 hours after Caroline message and during
my official hollyday -- Armistice Day; nothing was in late).

I am not sure it is correct.
You probably noticed I never send an official email to the ga@dnso.org
or announce@dnso.org lists from my personnal account, with my
personnal name.

Elisabeth

> From owner-ga@dnso.org Fri Nov 12 10:05 MET 1999
> From: R.Gaetano@iaea.org
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] FW from ncdnhc: GA Chair proposal from Names Council
> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:05:59 +0100
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> Relevant to the GA Chair election
> Regards
> Roberto
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GAETANO, Roberto
> Sent: Friday, 12 November 1999 10:04 AM
> To: 'KathrynKL@aol.com'; ncdnhc-discuss@lyris.isoc.org
> Subject: RE: [ncdnhc document for review] GA Chair proposal from Names
> Council
>
>
> Kathryn,
>
> > Do you have any comments or concerns about the document being
> > circulated by
> > the Names council (below) for election of the GA Chair?
> >
>
> I do.
>
> First of all, a minor introductory note:
> The reference to Article VI-B, Section 4 seems irrelevant to me,
considering
> that the election of the GA Chair is covered on Article VI-B, Section 2
(j).
>
> Now, to the point.
> >
> > The Names Council has resolved that the first elections for such Chair
> > of the General Assembly will take place between the December 11th and
> > the 17th of December, 1999. Candidates for this election may be
> > nominated between the 26th of November 1999 and the 10th of December
> > 1999.
> >
> > The Names Council will elect one Chair to the General
> > Assembly who will
> > serve for a period of one year. Afterwards, a Chair will be elected
> > every year to replace the Chair whose term has expired.
> >
> > The Names Council hereby requests that the General Assembly
> > come up with
> > nomination procedures for nominating candidates for election to the
> > Chair of the General Assembly, and that it submit proposals
> > to the Names
> > Council at [ELISABETH WHAT ADDRESS???] no later than November 19th,
> > 1999.
> >
>
> I think that the first step is for the GA to agree on the nomination
> procedure.
> I am not really sure that the Council has to determine the nomination
> procedure: the Bylaws only give to the Council the power to elect the
Chair.
>
> It will be best for everybody if the GA could come up with a proposal that
> could be agreed by the Council, and that could at the same time provide an
> indication of the real will of the GA. In other words, what I would like
to
> avoid is another Rick White case.
>
> As a first step, it should be clear that for the GA Chair nomination only
GA
> participants should be qualified. I don't see any rationale for having
also
> the constituencies involved - I may say an obvious thing, but better to
> clear up the road in front.
>
> I will also post this to the GA, hope you don't mind.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
> > The nomination mechanism adopted by the Names Council and to
> > be used to
> > nominate the Chair of the General Assembly will be posted in the DNSO
> > website no later than November 26th.  Nominations pursuant to the
> > nomination mechanism adopted by the Names Council must be
> > sent by e-mail
> > to {ELISABETH, WHERE????] between the 26th of November 1999
> > and the 10th
> > of December 1999 (18:00 CET, see
> > http://www.dnso.org/timeworld.html for
> > local time in other
> > places). Any and all emails relating to the
> > nomination and election of the Chair of the General Assembly will be
> > published in the www.dnso.org website. Any mail sent to any
> > other e-mail
> > address will not be considered.
> >
> >
> >
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