Re: [council] Emergency Reminder about the GA's Chair nominationprocedures

[Raúl Echeberría <raul@inia.org.uy>]

Kathy: I like your proposal. Do you have any idea of names to this task ?

At 16:02 24/11/99 EST, KathrynKL@aol.com wrote:
>I have reviewed the proposals and see a number of similarities, etc.  I
think 
>they can mostly be reconciled.  My real concern here is that as a Names 
>Council, we decline invitation to step in and provide the authentication and 
>pollwatching services ourselves.  In the long run, I think it will help the 
>GA and the DNSO more if we teach the GA to handle authentication and 
>pollwatching committees on its own --through the appointment of independent 
>neutrals.
>
>In the proposals:  I do see a role for neutrals to review the names on the
GA 
>lists for redundancy/lives in being etc. (see proposal of 
>R.Gaetano@iaea.org).  I also think there is a role for a neutral
pollwatching 
>committee (see proposal of J.Weinberg which seems to expand on, but be 
>slightly different from the proposal of Roberto's).
>
>But I would like to recommend that we don't take the easy way and appoint 
>ourselves -- members of the Names Council to this/these groups.  Let's see
if 
>we can find some neutrals -- perhaps leaders of other Supporting 
>Organizations -- to work with the GA on authentication/poll watching.  If we 
>do, we will be viewed as the good guys who took the high ground. 
>
>Kathy Kleiman



Raul Echeberria
raul@inia.org.uy