[ga] Revised charter proposal for elections of an interim at large panel

[Vittorio Bertola <v.bertola@bertola.eu.org>]

Dear all,

here is the interim panel election charter proposal revised with all
comments and suggestions I've received up to now (thanks!). Please
send more comments and suggestions or at least an expression of
support.

A nice coloured versions with changes highlighted is available on the
web at http://www.icannatlarge.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=246#246. Main
changes include:
- an initial statement about what kind of panel members we'd like to
have
- reduction from 9 to 7 panel members
- rewording and clarifications in the mandate
- a provision about a confirmation vote by the members if the mandate
cannot be achieved in three months
- moving the dates a couple of days forward (time is ticking...)
- allowing three days for the vote rather than one
- clarifying the mechanism of voting and picking the elected
candidates, including a minimum threshold of 15 votes and a tie
resolution method (questionable, but hopefully not really important)

Discussion is still ongoing, so there might be more changes, but the
target is to finalize this charter in a couple of days.


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ELECTIONS OF AN INTERIM PANEL FOR ICANNATLARGE.COM 

Following the discussions on the ALSC Forum list, the icannatlarge.com
website, and other lists, an election for an interim panel for the
icannatlarge.com effort is now starting. 

The purpose is to select a group of members that represent different
views, cultures and geographical areas inside the At Large movement,
have some technical and organizational skills, and are willing to
devote a significant amount of their time to this effort in the next
few months. 


MANDATE OF THE INTERIM PANEL 

The panel shall be composed of seven members of the icannatlarge.com
effort. 

The mandate of the panel will be limited to: 

1. guiding an outreach campaign so that the highest possible number of
active users of the Internet who might want to participate in ICANN
are informed of the effort and can register on icannatlarge.com if
they wish, and that the membership grows to a point where it can be
considered sufficiently representative of such users; 

2. guiding the public and open discussion of Bylaws for a new At Large
Membership organization, trying to gather consensus, consider all
inputs, unify all efforts, and put together, after no more than two
months from its election, one or more proposals of Bylaws to be then
submitted and approved by a majority vote of the membership; 

3. establishing a secure voting system for the Bylaws to be approved
and subsequently for the first election of the officers of the new
organization, and managing to hold such two votes before its
expiration term; 

4. managing the icannatlarge.com website, directly and/or by
appointing webmasters. 

The panel shall expire and conclude its work after three months from
its election, or after the officers of the new organization have been
elected, whichever comes first. In case that the officers' election
cannot be held before the expiration date, a general majority vote of
the membership will decide whether to extend the panel's term by three
more months, or to elect a new interim panel according to this
charter. 


OPERATIONAL DETAILS AND TIMEFRAME 

All persons registering on icannatlarge.com before the end of Friday 5
April 2002 (GMT) will be entitled to vote. By April 9 all enrolled
persons will receive by e-mail their login data for the voting system
and the instructions about how to vote. 

Members who subscribe this charter and thus want to candidate
themselves to the interim panel will have to express their intention
to do so by posting a message to the "Candidacies" thread in the
"Elections" forum of the icannatlarge.com website, by the end of
Friday 5 April 2002 (GMT). Only members that do so will be allowed to
be voted. 

A public debate about the candidates will be hold in the "Elections"
forum of the icannatlarge.com website on April 6-9. The electoral
campaign will then stop. 

Voting will occur between Wednesday 10 April and Friday 12 April 2002
(GMT). 


VOTING SYSTEM 

Each voter will be allowed to endorse up to three names taken from the
list of the candidates. The seven candidates who receive the highest
number of votes will be elected, provided that they have received at
least 15 votes; if there are not seven candidates above this
threshold, the number of members of the panel will be reduced
accordingly. 

Ties (if any) will be solved by ordering names by the number of
candidates of the same ICANN Region (as amended per ALSC proposal)
that received more votes than the tied ones (the lowest first, so to
help diversity among regions), then the same by country, and then by
age (the oldest first). 

At this stage, it is impossible to provide anything more than a simple
online voting system, or to strictly verify the real identity of the
people who registered. Though we are aware of these problems, we think
that it is necessary to bootstrap this effort to be then able to set
up systems with a higher degree of authentication and security. It is
necessary for all those who participate to trust the current
organizers of the icannatlarge.com effort about the fact that
elections will be conducted in a fair manner.
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Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology

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