Re: [council] A Proposal: Rotating Secretatiat

["Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@digitel.net>]

i also feel that peter is "right on-target" here and could not support this
proposal.
i commend vany for her enthusiasm but feel it is just not practical.

ken stubbs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>
To: "'Vany Martinez'" <vany@sdnp.org.pa>; <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:29 AM
Subject: RE: [council] A Proposal: Rotating Secretatiat


> Vany,
>
> Speaking personally, I could not endorse or participate in this idea. Here
> are a few reasons:
>
> 1. I run a business. The successful operation of that business
contributes,
> in fact, makes possible financially, my participation in ICANN process,
and
> the process of Internet development in many distant countries. The  cost,
> about U.S. $ 50,000 for the last 12 months.
>
> 2. I am already using the time of some of my employees and staff in my
> business to perform ICANN related support services for myself, as a NC
> member, and as chair of ccTLD AdCom, contributing to organization of
> meetings, interacting with ccTLD secretariat, working on documents for NC
> Budget, ICANN budget, ccTLD briefings, ccTLD outreach (like recent trip to
> Ghana, Africa to assist in organizing AFTLD), and much more. I can not
> afford to take any more time away or use up more resources than i am
already
> using.
>
>
> 3. I believe many persons on NC are busy executives who are taking time
away
> from what they do (outside of ICANN) to participate. They (and I) can not
> take even more time away from their regular work.
>
> 4. Any business, especially the NC, should have professional secretarial
> support. We can be more effective by working at our highest level, and
> obtaining support functions by paying money for them. "Volunteer"
services,
> in the long term, can not be guaranteed to continue at high professional
> level. They are dependent on energy of persons supplying such services,
and
> ability of those persons to receive life-sustaining salary from somewhere
> (unless they are independent wealthy persons).
>
> 5. Elisabeth's "volunteering" is possible because her regular employers
pay
> for her time and make the "volunteering" to ICANN a part of her job. I am
> sure that is the case for some other NC members as well. It is not the
case
> for me.
>
>
> Vany, I do appreciate your way of thinking, and desire to "save money" and
> "reduce member contributions". Any business should always try to "do more
> with less".
>
> The bottom line is, there is no free lunch.
>
>
> regards
>
> Peter de Blanc
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> Vany Martinez
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 10:46 PM
> To: council@dnso.org
> Subject: [council] A Proposal: Rotating Secretatiat
>
>
> Dear fellow NC members:
>
> I have an idea to propose which its concept is implemented in Central
> Americal for Central American Environment Commission.
>
> There are certain tasks (non-technical tasks) of Secretariat that
perfectly
> can be made by any one of us.   We are 19 member right now and 7
> constituencies.
>
> The proposal is the follwing:
>
> "Every constituency will perfom non-technical Secretariat tasks through
> their Names Council members in a rotative basis with a 3-month-period."
>
> Why three month period?  Because maybe with such a period, three Names
> Council members can organize themselves one month every one, one three
> months,  or whatever they like to organize.
> Also, this additional task would prevent that people that is not really
> compromised with the high responsability to be a Names Council member,
runs
> for elections in their own constituencies.
>
> After all, if Elizabeth do it voluntarily, any one of us can do it also.
>
> In Central America there is an Environment Commission composed by the
> Environment Governmental Authorities of every Central American country.
> Every six month, an Environment Governmental Authority of a country
assumes
> the Secretariat.
>
> I hope this proposal be welcome and that have the oportunity to be voted
in
> Stockholm or in the next teleconference after Stockholm.
>
> Cheers
> Vany
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> Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
> IT Specialist
> Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
> a member of the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency of the
> ICANN's DNSO
> e-mail:  vany@sdnp.org.pa
> Tel: (507) 230-4011 ext 213
> Fax:  (507)  230-3455
>