Re: [ga] Moving Discussion -- Call on the Chair

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 06:38 16/07/2001 +1000, Alternate Chair wrote:
>Dear Danny
>
>The following motion has been fully debated.  From my count there are 13 or
>possibly 14 persons in favour.  Two persons have opposed the motion.  One
>person objects to the wording.  The final version, after considering all
>objections, reads as follows:
>
>(1)    The [ga] mailing list is reserved for substantive issues relating to
>DNS policy.  All debate relating to rules, lists, protocols, procedures,
>etc. is to be conducted on the [ga-rules] mailing list   Subscribers to
>[ga-rules] may, by consensus or other prescribed procedures, refer issues
>to the full General Assembly for a determinative ballot.
>
>(2)    The list rules are amended to include the exact wording of (1) above.
>
>Note:  For the purposes of this motion, the term "prescribed procedures"
>refers to procedures which have been adopted by the General Assembly.
>
>As Alternate Chair I submit this motion to you, as Chair, for your
>consideration.  As I understand the current procedures, the Chair is
>required to accept or reject the motion.

Danny,

It is time for you to speak.
This Assembly has elected you as Chair.
Being elected means you have a certain mandate and duty to keep order in 
this Assembly and that you can count on those who elected you to support 
you in such efforts.

Patrick is growing desperate in trying to get your support for a motion 
that is meant to bring credibility to the GA and allow proposals for 
GA-procedure to be developed on a separate list, where they will not drown 
out the main substantive DNS policy issues.

It is now clear to me that those who insist on conducting such procedural 
debate on the main GA list, do this in order to distract the GA from its 
intended purpose and doom it to ineffectiveness.
Always the same tactics. :-(

Since all GA members will have the right to vote on any proposed procedure 
and all members are free to join ga-rules, I have sufficient confidence in 
the proposed procedure to support it.

The alt-chair has gone as far as he could.
Now it is time for the chair to speak out and for the GA to rally behind 
its own elected Chairs.

With regards to using the Polling Booth while the DNSO secretariat is busy 
or on holiday, I see problems.
Unless the bulk of the GA members signs up as a registered voter there, 
(www.democracy.or.nz/voter_registration.htm)  in the same way as they have 
done with the secretariat, such voting will not have the necessary 
legitimacy and can be only regarded as an informal straw poll.

It would certainly help to give the GA some self-organizing power, if the 
Chair would encourage the additional registration.




--Joop--
Founder of the Cyberspace Association.
Former bootstrap of the IDNO (www.democracy.org.nz/idno/)
Developer of    The Polling Booth
www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/


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