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Re: [council] GA Chair election procedure
I have no idea what voting process the GA might adopt - but I understand
many are keen to have an election and, if the GA can put in place a fair and
open voting process, I would have no problems with a vote. However, I guess
the issue of whether the GA want/need an election process to identify their
nominee(s) for the GA chair(s) is an internal matter for the GA.
erica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>
To: "'Erica Roberts'" <erica.roberts@bigpond.com>; "'DNSO Secretariat'"
<DNSO.Secretariat@dnso.org>; <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: [council] GA Chair election procedure
> 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
> >
>
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