Re: [ga-rules] Procedures and Process

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Harald,
You are of course correct about the titles. What I meant to say was "KEY
PRINCIPLES THAT UNDERLY BEST PRACTICES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY", but your
alternative title is probably better.

However, the "BEST PRACTICES" concept has received a fairly positive
response from some of those who have persistently blocked attempts at
introducing new rules (including WXW which is no trivial achievement), so
let's not lose that rare opportunity to take a step forward, even a baby
step.

I lifted most of this particular text from UN Principals and Procedures, and
if you think an amended version would be at all useful as a covering
document to drive your "Definition of Motions" and other "Best Practice"
documents that may present themselves from time to time, that's great.

Alternatively, if it's just adding to the workload unecessarily, we
shouldn't push it.

Regards,
Joanna


on 6/26/01 11:51 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand at harald@alvestrand.no wrote:

>> 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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