Re: [ga] proposal

[Darrell Greenwood <darrell_greenwood@mindlink.net>]

I concur with Kent's proposal.

Cheers,

Darrell

At 1:37 PM -0800 11/19/99, Kent Crispin wrote:

>I formally propose that the essentially the same mechanism be used as
>was used in the BoD elections:
>
>    Any member of the GA may make a nomination.
>
>    Members of the GA will email their support for nominations to an
>    address to be specified by the DNSO secretariat.  Members of the
>    GA may support as many nominees as they wish.  We expect that the
>    NC will view the number of supporters as valuable input into the
>    selection process, but because of the possibility of various
>    kinds of election fraud, not definitive.
>
>    All nominees with 10 or more nominations or support messages
>    will be forwarded to the NC for consideration.
>
>    For purposes of this exercise, a "member of the GA" shall be any
>    natural person subscribed to the ga and ga-announce lists, any
>    member of any wg list, and members of any constituency.  Note
>    that it is the person that counts, not the email address -- a
>    person with multiple email addresses is only counted once. (I
>    realize there is no way at present to check this.  However, it
>    is in my opinion important to establish the principle that an
>    email address is only an agent for a person.)
>
>Kent Crispin
>
>--
>Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
>kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain


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