[ga-full] Re: [ga] About GA membership again......

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

Let's be relistic - this whole GA membership idea is a lark.  Remember
Cairo.

Regards
Joe Baptista

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> At 17:27 23.03.00 +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> >At 14:52 22/03/00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >- The DNSO General Assembly is composed of those persons who want to be
> > >   members of that assembly.
> > >
> >
> >Yes. Does that mean that in Yokohama there will be a signup form at the
> >entrance of the meeting room?
> 
> why not? add another to the entrance of the IDNO meeting too, and
> one at the N+I conference, and.....
> One would probably want to have mechanisms to "close the email loop" on 
> each; no sense in signing up members who are unable to reply to their email.
> 
> > >- In order to be a member, one must send an email to the Keeper of the
> > >   Membership List (a secretariat function) asking to become a member,
> > >   and giving:
> > >   - Name
> > >   - Country of residence
> > >   - Optionally, company affiliation and/or city of residence
> > >   - Email to be used for balloting
> > >   All the information except the email will be made public.
> > >
> >Elisabeth is no longer doing the secretariat function, is she? To whom will
> >we address our emails?
> 
> We'll have to sort that out with our support staff; the contract is not
> with Elisabeth.
> 
> >Will this list be immediately visible on the dnso website, as the list is
> >built? (something I do for idno -members with a little lag, depending on my
> >time)
> 
> I see no reason not to do that - but it depends on how the support staff
> feels that it can handle the task.
> 
> > >- A Member can be removed from the Membership list by:
> > >   - A request from the Member to be removed
> > >   - A procedure (to be defined) for dealing with fraudulent registrations
> > >
> > >- A Member has the right to vote in a GA vote.
> > >   A Member has the duty to receive GA vote ballots, and to keep his
> > >   registration info updated.
> > >
> > >This point set is incomplete (particularly the definition of fraudulent
> > >registration), but I thought it time to get comments on a proposal.
> > >
> >Harald, it's best to keep it simple.
> >Better close the open ends a.s.a.p.
> >I don't think there is a need to make a big issue out of perceived multiple
> >personalities and allow this to hold up the formation of a working
> >membership list.
> 
> The issues aren't big until someone tries to exploit them; if we have known 
> loopholes and people who have demonstrated a will to exploit them, we 
> should take a little care to have rules that we can enforce if we need them.
> 
> I'd like to have some rules written down, and then never have to enforce them.
> 
>                     Harald
> 
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> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
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