RE: [ga] Proposal for chair election rules for the GA

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 20:36 01/03/2001 -0500, Joanna Lane wrote:
>Hello Harald,
>Thank you for your time on this matter. I support the Single Transferable
>Vote procedure you propose. However, I have difficulty with being subject to
>the Secretariat for an announcement to start the process off. We are
>perfectly capable of instigating the procedure ourselves and given the
>impending meeting in Oz, I'd like to see names in the Booth yesterday. Is
>there anything we can do about this?

suggested addition to the election rules:

 >WHEN TO HAVE AN ELECTION
 >------------------------
 >An election is usually held near the end of the term of office for the
 >chair of the General Assembly. The exact time is decided by the outgoing
 >Chairs, or the Names Council if both outgoing Chairs are unavailable.

In the proposal, the Secretariat runs the whole election machinery, so we 
are dependent on the Secretariat having the necessary resources available.
There is no sense in starting an election if the mailservers handling the 
elecction are known to be down for 3 days at the same time, for instance...

I consider the "pre-gathering" of names that we are doing now a Good Thing; 
it will make the process of gathering nominees much quicker once the formal 
process starts.

Note: The NC has decided that it wants to have exactly the same process as 
last year for the "formal" selection - this procedure will run in parallel 
with the "official" procedure.
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
+47 41 44 29 94
Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

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