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

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

At 10:22 AM 7/24/99 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
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>I propose these conclusions:
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>a) by holding an election for Chair we will be discarding our current
chair and
>selecting a new one, unless we explicitly agree to accept the current chair
>designated by the Names Council.


I agree that the WG should elect its own chair, and have stated so to the
Names Council. The concept of a pNC-appointed chair was a compromise
response to my suggestion that WG's should elect/appoint their own chairs,
not the pNC.

Even so, I also believe it is probably a good idea for the Working Group to
have a person who serves as liaison with the Names Council, for
communication reasons at the least. That might be achieved in one of
several ways:

1. The current pNC-appointed Chair (Javier) could stand for
election/confirmation along with any other nominees; if elected/confirmed,
he would be able to serve the liaison function as well;

or

2. If the current pNC-appointed chair is not elected/confirmed, the newly
elected chair could ask the pNC to appoint a liaison - it would likely
continue to be Javier. 
or

3. If the current pNC-appointed chair is not elected/confirmed, the newly
elected chair could appoint someone from among its members (pNC member or
not) to serve as liaison to the pNC and inform the pNC that it would like
to assign its own liaison.

 
>b) The Chair will not have the ability to determine consensus on his/her own.
>Votes must be taken on each issue, and the committee might want to fix a
>specific threshold, such as 66% majority.

Agree

>c) No conclusions of any sort will be arrived at prior to a face to face
>meeting of this committee in Los angeles in November.


Agree
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>Javier SOLA wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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, assuring that discussion takes place, and assuring
>> that the agreements are communicated to the Names Council.
>>
>> There are also management functions such as organizing meetings, mailing
>> lists, etc.
>>
>> Javier
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