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Re: [council] GA Chair Nominations.DOC
Caroline and Elisabeth,
I think Caroline's summary is very well written considering the
submitted proposals. And Elisabeth's comments are very thoughtful.
Thank you, both of you.
I have comments on 2 points.
(1) When does each nominee declare acceptance or declination of
nomination?
There may be ambiguity or problem in the deadline of nominee's
acceptance of nomination. For example, can a nominee send his/her
acceptance before closing time of nomination? Can a nominee
express his/her acceptance with a speech if nomination is sent to
the list just before the deadline? Or, is there possibility for
people to endorse a nominee who will decline?
To make it clear and reasonable, how about making the following
change?
"Any nominee can express his/her acceptance or declination
* from the time he is nominated,
* until 3 hours after closing the nomination period.
If no acceptance is expressed in the period, he/she is thought
to have declined. After the deadline of acceptance, the list
of accepted nominees is published and then endorsement period
begins."
If "3 hours after closing the nomination period" is 21:00 CET,
Elisabeth may be able to publish the list of accepted nominees
at 22:00 rather than after midnight CET.
(2) Can people in watchdog committee get nominated?
To avoid having a nominee in watchdog committee, how about asking
the people in watchdog committee to declare that they do not intend
to be candidates of GA Chair?
Hiro
At 99/11/25 18:44, Elisabeth wrote:
> Caroline,
>
> Your summary is very good. I have one main comment regarding
> consistency with dates in the "Call for nomination procedures" the NC
> established and which is quoted on the main http://www.dnso.org/ page.
>
> We have always Friday 18:00 CET as a border between actions:
> Friday Nov 26, 18:00 CET -- call for nominations open
> Friday Dec 10, 18:00 CET -- call for nominations close
> Friday Dec 10, 18:00 CET -- the NC starts to discuss
> Friday Dec 17, 18:00 CET -- decision of the NC published
> whereas your proposal gives:
> Friday Nov 26, 18:00 CET -- call for nominations open
> Thursday Dec 2, 16:00 CET -- call for nominations close
> Thursday Dec 2, 24:00 CET -- list of accepted nominees published
> Thursday Dec 2, 17:00 CET -- call for endorsements open
> Tuesday Dec 7, 16:00 CET -- call for endorsements close
> (the NC starts just after and gives results on Friday Dec 17).
>
> I would suggest the following date's adjustement:
> Friday Nov 26, 18:00 CET -- call for nominations open
> Friday Dec 3, 18:00 CET -- call for nominations close
> Friday Dec 3, 24:00 CET -- list of accepted nominees published
> Friday Dec 3, 18:00 CET -- call for endorsements open
> Friday Dec 10, 18:00 CET -- call for endorsements close
> Friday Dec 10, 24:00 CET -- list of nominees+endorsements publis
hed
> (the NC starts just after and gives results on Friday Dec 17).
>
> Explanation:
> - we will avoid criticism about differents hours
> - we will avoid criticism about shortened time, less than a week,
> for nominations and endorsements
> - the list for nominations: ga-nominations@dnso.org is different
> from the list for endorsement: ga-endorsements@dnso.org, and
> therefore it is not difficult to have the same hour as a limit
>
> I believe (experience of the NC vote for ICANN BoD) it is necessary
> to write up front that the messages sent to ga-nominations@dnso.org
> and ga-endorsements@dnso.org are processed manually (approved manually).
> Both lists are de facto open to anybody and besides fraudulent posts
> may be targetted by spams or by spoofing.
>
> Caroline's summary hopefully provides templates
> for posting to that lists, therefore we have a very clear situation:
> - the rule for accepting messages by the DNSO Secretariat
> is a conformity to a template and this procedures
> (the non-accepted messages are re-sent to the watchdog
> for decision)
> - the watchdog commitee is in charge of detection of fraudulent
> posts
>
> Elisabeth
>
> >
> > Nomination Procedures for the Chair of the General Assembly (GA)
> >
> >
> > 1. The nominations period shall take place starting November 26,
> > 1999 at 18:00 Central European Time (CET) through 16:00 CET, December =
> > 2,
> > 1999.
> >
> > 2. Any member of the GA may make a nomination.
> >
> > A member of the GA shall be any natural person who at the time of the
> > nomination (or endorsement as set forth below) is:
> > (a) subscribed to the GA or GA-announce lists;
> > (b) subscribed to a working group list; or
> > (c) a member of a DNSO Constituency.
> > Note: A person with multiple email addresses is only
> > counted once.
> >
> > 3. Nominations should be emailed to the DNSO Secretariat at the
> > following email address: [Elisabeth, please fill in]. The nomination
> > should include at least the following information:
> > (a) the name and email address of the nominee,=20
> > (b) the name and email address of the nominator, and
> > (c) type of GA membership (i.e., GA subscriber,
> > GA-announce subscriber, Working Group subscriber, or DNSO Constituency
> > member).
> > 4. Any nominee has until 16:00 CET on December 2, 1999 in which to
> > accept the nomination. Acceptances should be emailed to the DNSO
> > Secretariat at the following email address: [Elisabeth, please fill in]
> > and should include at least the following information:
> > (a) the name and email address of the nominee,=20
> > (b) background information about the nominee, and=20
> > (c) a statement of the nominee's objectives in the
> > role as Chair of the GA (including his or her views of the role of the
> > GA and its relationship with the Names Council and Constituencies of =
> > the
> > DNSO). =20
> > A list of the accepted nominees shall be posted at the
> > following email address no later than 24:00 CET on December 2, 1999
> > [Elisabeth, please fill in].
> > 5. Starting at 17:00 CET, December 2, 1999 and up until 16:00 CET
> > on December 7, 1999, any member of the GA may endorse their support for
> > any of the accepted nominees. Endorsements should be emailed to the
> > DNSO Secretariat at the following email address: [Elisabeth, please
> > fill in]. The endorsement should include at least the following
> > information:
> > (1) the name and email address of the endorser; and
> > (2) the name of the accepted nominee he or she
> > wishes to endorse. =20
> > Specific statements of endorsements (i.e., how you know
> > the nominee and why you believe he or she would make a good GA Chair)
> > may also be submitted and are encouraged. Members of the GA may =
> > endorse
> > as many accepted nominees as they wish, but may only endorse any given
> > accepted nominee once. While the Names Council will consider the =
> > number
> > of endorsements for each accepted nominee as valuable input into the
> > selection process, given the potential for abuse in an online process,
> > such numbers will not be definitive.
> > 6. All accepted nominees that receive 10 or more endorsements by
> > 16:00 CET on December 7, 1999 shall be forwarded to the Names Council
> > for selection.
> > 7. A nomination watchdog committee shall be formed to police the
> > nomination process to help detect and cure any instances of fraudulent
> > activity in connection with the nomination process. The committee =
> > shall
> > consists of the authors of the nominations procedures proposals
> > submitted to the GA, which includes Jonathan Weinberg, Kent Crispin,
> > Javier Rodriguez, Roberto Gaetano and Bradley Thorton. Any instances =
> > of
> > fraudulent nominations or endorsements should be reported to this
> > committee at the following email address: [Elisabeth, fill in], with a
> > copy to the Names Council at council@dnso.org. This committee and the
> > Names Council shall have the sole discretion as to how to deal with any
> > such reported activity.
> >
> >
>
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Hirofumi Hotta
R&D Strategy Department, NTT