Re: [wg-c] Election of co-chair

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

On 24 July 1999, Javier SOLA <javier@aui.es> wrote:


>
>I seems that we have two candidates to the position of co-chair who have
>accepted their nomination: Kent and Jonathan.
>
>It does not seem acceptable to me to include in a ballot somebody who has
>not accepted (given his/her permission) to be there by accepting the
>nomination. If any other of the nominees wish to be put in the ballot, they
>can say so today, otherwise I will post a ballot tomorrow with these two
>names only, and then leave three days for the members of the WG to vote.
>
>Votes will be posted to this list, to avoid getting into complicated voting
>mechanisms.


Haven't several people already voiced their disapproval of weekend voting?
Are you simply ignoring this?

>
>I will count the votes on the morning of Thursday July 29th and post a
>result. Anybody else who wishes to post an account of votes can also do so.


The morning of Thursday July 29th?  The morning when?  In what time zone?
based on GMT?  When?  When does voting end?  Would you please try to be
a bit less vague about these things?

>
>I agree with Kent and Jonathan on the functions of the Chair, which can be
>summarize in trying to figure out what the consensus (or rough consensus)
>of the working group is,

So. The mechanism to be used for determining consensus is to be "whatver
the chair thinks consensus is"?  Great.  Why don't you just come out and
tell the WG what is going to be in the report now, Javier?  Why make us
play at this charade for the next several weeks?  

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