Re: [ga-rules] Procedures and Process

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On tirsdag, juni 26, 2001 08:02:37 -0400 Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com> 
wrote:

> on 6/26/01 6:08 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand at harald@alvestrand.no wrote:
>> And I would suggest that we (on this list) propose a rule for dealing
>> with motions, discuss it for a while, and then ask our Chairs to put that
>> proposal to a vote. This can then be added to "gaindex", supplying what
>> you
> want.
>
> May I preface that with:-
>
> KEY PRINCIPLES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (not rules)
> The decisions reached by members that make up the General Assembly are not
> mandatory; they are recomendations to the Names Council and Board of
> Directors. Whether recomendations will be interpreted loosely or strictly
> depends to be seen and will be determined in large part by public opinion
> of the world (with apologies to Kenilworthy).
>
> BEST PRACTICES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (not rules)

I would term this section "IDEALS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY" - if adopted, 
they
serve to inform the practices, they are not themselves the practices.
For example, "transparency" is an ideal; "all archives and all rules are on 
the Web"
is part of the practice of that ideal.

I also have nits with most of them ("Accountable to who? The NC, the Board 
or its members?"),
but the spirit they seem to want to encourage is something I like.

> 1.    Participatory
> 2.    Sustainable
> 3.    Legitimate and accessible to people
> 4.    Transparent
> 5.    Promotes equality and equity
> 6.    Able to develop the resources and methods of a general assembly
> 7.    Promotes gender balance
> 8.    Promotes cultural diversity
> 9.    Mobilizes resources for sustainable development purposes
> 10.    Operates by rule of law
> 11.    Efficient and effective in resource use
> 12.    Engenders and commands respect and trust
> 13.    Accountable
> 14.    Able to define and take ownership of recomended solutions
> 15.    Enabling and facilitative
> 16.    Regulatory rather than controlling
> 17.    Able to deal with temporal issues
> 18.    Service oriented.
>
> Regards,
> Joanna
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