[council] e-mail voting; remark from GA chair

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

With all due respect, I do not believe that the provisions suggested 
today should be voted in Ghana.  Instead, Iīd request that they be 
discussed and voted in a telephone conference.  The GA chair and 
co-chair should both participate in the discussion during this phone 
call.

On the substance of the suggestion, it should be noted that the GA wonīt 
be able to organize a valid vote by itself without access to the GA 
votersī  registry, which is currently maintained by the DNSO 
secretariat.  In order to enable the GA to hold votes without the 
further support from the secretariat, there needs to be access to the 
data in the voters' registry.  Ideally, the voting software used by the 
secretariat should also be made available, so no duplication of software 
development work is needed.

Also, Iīd urge you to make sure that any voting provisions should fail 
on the side of the ability of the GA to hold a vote. In particular, 
refusing such a vote (and be it for budgetary reasons) should _not_ be 
at the sole discretion of the NCīs chair.  Such a decision of the chair 
should _at_ _least_ be subject to a required confirmation by a majority 
of the NCīs members at the next reasonable opportunity, such as the next 
conference call.  If this confirmation  can not be obtained, the NC 
chairīs decision  should be considered overridden, and the vote should 
be held.

Greetings from the GA's chairman,
-- 
Thomas Roessler (mobile) <roessler@does-not-exist.org>