[ga] Re: [ALSC-Forum] Revised charter proposal for elections of aninterim at large panel
I like your proposal. Let's run with it. -s On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 07:03, Vittorio Bertola wrote: > > Dear all, > > here is the interim panel election charter proposal revised with all > comments and suggestions I've received up to now (thanks!). Please > send more comments and suggestions or at least an expression of > support. > > A nice coloured versions with changes highlighted is available on the > web at http://www.icannatlarge.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=246#246. Main > changes include: > - an initial statement about what kind of panel members we'd like to > have > - reduction from 9 to 7 panel members > - rewording and clarifications in the mandate > - a provision about a confirmation vote by the members if the mandate > cannot be achieved in three months > - moving the dates a couple of days forward (time is ticking...) > - allowing three days for the vote rather than one > - clarifying the mechanism of voting and picking the elected > candidates, including a minimum threshold of 15 votes and a tie > resolution method (questionable, but hopefully not really important) > > Discussion is still ongoing, so there might be more changes, but the > target is to finalize this charter in a couple of days. > > > ---- > ELECTIONS OF AN INTERIM PANEL FOR ICANNATLARGE.COM > > Following the discussions on the ALSC Forum list, the icannatlarge.com > website, and other lists, an election for an interim panel for the > icannatlarge.com effort is now starting. > > The purpose is to select a group of members that represent different > views, cultures and geographical areas inside the At Large movement, > have some technical and organizational skills, and are willing to > devote a significant amount of their time to this effort in the next > few months. > > > MANDATE OF THE INTERIM PANEL > > The panel shall be composed of seven members of the icannatlarge.com > effort. > > The mandate of the panel will be limited to: > > 1. guiding an outreach campaign so that the highest possible number of > active users of the Internet who might want to participate in ICANN > are informed of the effort and can register on icannatlarge.com if > they wish, and that the membership grows to a point where it can be > considered sufficiently representative of such users; > > 2. guiding the public and open discussion of Bylaws for a new At Large > Membership organization, trying to gather consensus, consider all > inputs, unify all efforts, and put together, after no more than two > months from its election, one or more proposals of Bylaws to be then > submitted and approved by a majority vote of the membership; > > 3. establishing a secure voting system for the Bylaws to be approved > and subsequently for the first election of the officers of the new > organization, and managing to hold such two votes before its > expiration term; > > 4. managing the icannatlarge.com website, directly and/or by > appointing webmasters. > > The panel shall expire and conclude its work after three months from > its election, or after the officers of the new organization have been > elected, whichever comes first. In case that the officers' election > cannot be held before the expiration date, a general majority vote of > the membership will decide whether to extend the panel's term by three > more months, or to elect a new interim panel according to this > charter. > > > OPERATIONAL DETAILS AND TIMEFRAME > > All persons registering on icannatlarge.com before the end of Friday 5 > April 2002 (GMT) will be entitled to vote. By April 9 all enrolled > persons will receive by e-mail their login data for the voting system > and the instructions about how to vote. > > Members who subscribe this charter and thus want to candidate > themselves to the interim panel will have to express their intention > to do so by posting a message to the "Candidacies" thread in the > "Elections" forum of the icannatlarge.com website, by the end of > Friday 5 April 2002 (GMT). Only members that do so will be allowed to > be voted. > > A public debate about the candidates will be hold in the "Elections" > forum of the icannatlarge.com website on April 6-9. The electoral > campaign will then stop. > > Voting will occur between Wednesday 10 April and Friday 12 April 2002 > (GMT). > > > VOTING SYSTEM > > Each voter will be allowed to endorse up to three names taken from the > list of the candidates. The seven candidates who receive the highest > number of votes will be elected, provided that they have received at > least 15 votes; if there are not seven candidates above this > threshold, the number of members of the panel will be reduced > accordingly. > > Ties (if any) will be solved by ordering names by the number of > candidates of the same ICANN Region (as amended per ALSC proposal) > that received more votes than the tied ones (the lowest first, so to > help diversity among regions), then the same by country, and then by > age (the oldest first). > > At this stage, it is impossible to provide anything more than a simple > online voting system, or to strictly verify the real identity of the > people who registered. Though we are aware of these problems, we think > that it is necessary to bootstrap this effort to be then able to set > up systems with a higher degree of authentication and security. It is > necessary for all those who participate to trust the current > organizers of the icannatlarge.com effort about the fact that > elections will be conducted in a fair manner. > -- > .oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb. > Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net> Ph. +39 011 23381220 > Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology > > DISCLAIMER, PLEASE NOTE: This communication is intended only for use by the > addressee. It may contain confidential or privileged information. > Transmission, distribution and/or copy cannot be permitted. Please notify > immediately the sender by replying if you are not the intended recipient. This is a digitally signed message part
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