Re: [ga] Motion to prepare for Chair elections [was: GA Chairman election]

[François Collignon <collignon@7ways.net>]

In the same way, I believe that the GA and constituencies must elect the
chairman of the ICANN board

francois Collignon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harald Alvestrand" <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
To: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>; <roberto.gaetano@voila.fr>;
<ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Motion to prepare for Chair elections [was: GA Chairman
election]


> At 14:00 31/10/2000 +1300, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> >But as current Chair, you can process a motion to
> >
> >1. Create a voters' roll for the GA (publish the names, but not the email
> >adresses on the DNSO website)
>
> Already done.
>
> >2. hold elections for Chair as soon as this roll is established, so that
a
> >new Chair can take his place as your term expires.
> >3. petition the Board for a Bylaw amendment that will give such a GA
> >elected Chair a legitimate role.
>
> Given the success of the AtLarge, we will inevitably be asked if the few
> hundred members of the GA voting registry are truly representative of the
> much larger set of interested parties.
> In such a small group within a much larger group, there is a very real
risk
> of "capture by special interests" (other than the present suspects).
> So a "tripwire" function to "legally" precipitate a crisis when a problem
> occurs is a Good Thing, I think.
>
> I would want to amend the Bylaws (copy from
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/aboutdnso.html) from:
>
>  >(i) The NC shall elect the Chairman of the GA annually.
>
> to:
>
>  >(i) The GA elects its own chair.
>  >The NC must confirm the election before the chair can take office.
>
> If the election is confirmed, no problem.
> If some election is not confirmed, we have a crisis.
>
>
> >I am herewith making such a motion.
>
> I am herewith motioning to continue debate before making a motion.
>
> (also, before we can have an election, we need to discuss election
> procedures. The ones used for the AtLarge, which I think were Instant
> Runoff, seem to have been accepted reasonably well.)
>
>
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