RE: [council] GA Chair election procedure

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Erica, I agree with your thoughts here, in principal.

However, if we ask the GA if it is able to conduct a fair and open election
process, would that require a vote of the GA? and if so, we are back to
square one. How would that vote be conducted?

peter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
Erica Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:33 PM
To: DNSO Secretariat; council@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [council] GA Chair election procedure


> 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 ?
>
My understanding was that the GA would elect their nominees for Chair and
Alternate Chair (assuming more than 2 candidates).  However, it is not at
all clear to me that the GA is able to conduct a fair and open election
process at this stage.
I'd therefore suggest that we invite the GA to indicate whether or not it is
able to conduct a fair and open election process, if required to determine
who its wishes to nominate for Chair and Alternate Chair.  If the GA
considers that it is able to conduct such an election, we should ask them to
detail the process.

regards,
erica
----- Original Message -----
From: "DNSO Secretariat" <DNSO.Secretariat@dnso.org>
To: <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:09 PM
Subject: [council] GA Chair election procedure


>
>
> 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
> --
>
> --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
>