[council] GA Chair election procedure

[DNSO Secretariat <DNSO.Secretariat@dnso.org>]

Names Council Members,

The attached is the short summary on the GA Chair elections.
According to the yesterday, 26 Feb, NC decision, this method will be
used for the next elections.

I would propose the following calendar, taking into account
various travels to and from Melbourne (avoiding 6-8 and 13-15 March):
    Today,  27 Feb - question and dates submitted for validation by the NC
    Friday,  2 Mar - call for nominations issued
    Friday,  9 Mar - call for endorsements issued
    Friday, 16 Mar - liste of candidates closed and submitted to the NC
    Friday, 23 Mar - NC votes (short telecon ?)

Please note local time issue valid now:
    23:00 UTC/ 24:00 CET is 10:00 Melbourne next day

Questions:
Since last year the GA has the voting roster.
Shall this voting roster be used for nominations and endorsements ?
If yes, when shall we inform the ga@dnso.org and announce@dnso.org
lists that this will be the case ?

Thank you,
DNSO Secretariat
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--Original message from 3 January 2001--
From owner-council@dnso.org  Wed Jan  3 18:01:02 2001
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:01:24 +0100 (MET)
From: Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>
Message-Id: <200101031701.SAA20042@balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr>
To: council@dnso.org
Cc: Harald@Alvestrand.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand),
        R.Gaetano@iaea.org (Roberto Gaetano)
Subject: [council] GA Chair elections
Sender: owner-council@dnso.org



Good morning in New Year,

You may recall that I was requested during the last NC teleconference
held on 19 December to provide the current procedures for the DNSO
GA Chair election.

The Nov-Dec 1999 election is described step by step in
    http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/1999.DNSO-GAchair.html
The procedures are in:
    http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19991126.DNSO-GAchair-procedures.html

In summary:
1. GA Chair and Alternate mandate: one year
2. Election process: 3 weeks, as below
   - one week for nominations by the DNSO GA members
   - one week for endorsements by the DNSO GA members
   - one week for the election by the NC among the proposed nominees
     who received at least 10 endorsements
   ==> A watchdog committee is formed to help detect and cure any instances 
       of fraudulent activity in connection with the nomination process. 
3. GA membership is defined as below:
   A member of the GA shall be any natural person who at 
   the time of the nomination (or endorsement as set forth below) is:
          subscribed to the GA-ga or GA-announce lists; 
          subscribed to a working group list; or 
          a Names Council member; or 
          a member of a DNSO Constituency. 
          Note: A person with multiple email addresses is only counted once.
   ==> Membership problems:
       a. Not all constituencies have a list of members available
          on line; some constituencies claim to be assotiations of
          organizations, asserting their membership is as large
          as the developped tree (practicaly it means unlimitted).
       b. Since mid-1999, the GA keeps a voting registry, open to all
          GA members, http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/rosterindex.html
          To vote upon GA matters one shall subscribe to the 
          voting registry. The voting roster (but not e-mail 
          addresses) is publicly available -- currently 269 persons.
          Access to the GA voting registry is from the 
          http://www.dnso.org main page. 

Recently the DNSO GA Chair suggested the GA not only nominates, but also
selects its Chair and Alternate.

Elisabeth