Re: [ga] 2001-2002 Budget

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_list@hotmail.com>]

William,

You wrote:
>
>Thursday, May 10, 2001, 11:45:30 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
>
> > To the members of the Budget Group and Finance Committee:
>
> > The membership of the General Assembly understands that you have advised 
>the
> > President of ICANN with respect to the proposed budget for 2001-2002.  
>We
> > are concerned by published reports that this proposed budget has not
> > allocated any funds for At-Large Elections, in spite of past promises to
> > choose at least five more Board members through this electoral process.  
>We
> > would appreciate the benefit of your thoughts on this matter.
>
>The GA has not expressed any such concern.
>
>I suggest that the GA Chair should not indicate to be speaking for the
>GA unless he has the expressed support from the GA for that statement.
>
>In this case, he speaks only for himself, and his comments should be
>given only that weight as they would from any one individual.


While I agree on the fact that the GA has not taken a formal position on the 
issue, I believe that the Chair can, on urgent matters, express his sense of 
the Assembly, pending verification in the short term.

It all depends: if the Chair feels that the GA does not have an opinion on 
the matter, you are right, he should speak as an individual.
If, OTOH, he feels that this is the position of the GA, he should confirm 
his message, and rapidely call a straw poll of the GA in support of this 
position.

Regards
Roberto


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