Re: [council] motion to waive rules

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

bruces logic makes lots of sense to me

ken stubbs


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>
To: "'Chicoine, Caroline G.'" <CCHICOINE@thompsoncoburn.com>; "DNSO
Secretariat" <DNSO.secretariat@dnso.org>; <council@dnso.org>
Cc: "Louis Touton" <touton@icann.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: RE: [council] motion to waive rules


> Hello All,
>
> > That is fine with me, but I think in the future that the NC
> > should look at
> > their rules and allow for these sort of email votes without
> > necessarily
> > having to have NC calls (except perhaps in the case of actual
> > elections)
> > This was a request to change one of our procedural rules and
> > I believe it
> > failed (assuming abstentions count as nos).  As the presenter
> > of the motion,
> > I have no problem with the email vote.  Email is a very
> > streamlined process
> > that also benefits those in time zones in which our calls are
> > inconvenient.
> > We are all busy people and I think the more we can use email
> > as a tool, the
> > better it is for everyone.
> >
>
> Just a comment from someone where the time zone is often inconvenient for
> teleconferences.
>
> I would like to be able to conduct votes on issues via email, where there
> has been the opportunity to discuss the issue via a face-to-face meeting
or
> teleconference.
>
> On the issue that was recently voted on, there was extensive discussion in
> the last namescouncil meeting and also email discussion before the email
> vote, and thus I think the use of email voting would be appropriate in
these
> circumstances, and we should consider how the ICANN by-laws could be
changed
> to allow this, (especially given the international nature of ICANN, and
the
> fact that we are supposed to be using the INTERNET as well as talking
about
> it!).  The Internet is intended to allow distant collaboration, and in
fact
> email is often regarded as the most valuable application of the Internet.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin