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Re: [At-Large] Rules of procedure, draft 2



I go for 2 - we have one "election time" and get it over with in good time
to send names where they need to be sent, with new positions being taken up
after the AGM, and we have time for the new officers to "shadow" and get up
to speed where necessary. Adam's right about the terms allowing for the
"new" ALAC to vote 2x.  He's also right in that we seem to get stuck on some
things after we are almost agreed, and then end up starting the discussion
all over again. 
Jacqueline
-----Original Message-----
From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:06 AM
To: Roberto Gaetano
Cc: alac@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Rules of procedure, draft 2

Roberto Gaetano ha scritto:
> Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think it's clear the new ALAC should vote for its representatives.
> 
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> Unless I am missing something, this implies two rounds of elections, the
> first one by the RALOs for the ALAC members, the second one by the ALAC
for
> the officers.

Incidentally, there is no term for the RALOs to notify their 
appointments, and some RALOs might want to meet at the AGM and vote 
there! So there's a bit of an electoral jam here :-)

Perhaps a solution (if we agree that we want to go for the third option 
I posted, "the new ALAC votes at the AGM") would be to add a clause that 
says that, even if the vote is held before the closure of the AGM (and 
it has to be so, because the first meeting of the new Board starts 
immediately after), it is the new ALAC members that vote, unless they 
have not been elected yet, in which case the old ALAC members vote in 
their place.

Anyway, we could also have a clause asking RALOs to notify their 
appointments, say, no later than three days before the closure of the 
AGM. That would allow RALOs to meet in the first days of the meeting and 
do the election.

If this is the line of conduct that we like, I will draft text to this 
effect - but is everyone ok with this? Could we please have a straw poll 
on preferences among the three options:

1) as it is now: the old ALAC votes at the AGM;
2) the old ALAC votes at the ICANN meeting before the AGM;
3) the new ALAC votes at the AGM.

Up to now, I've seen Wendy for 3), and personally that's the one I 
prefer as well.

Of course, if we prefer 1) or 3) then we have to check whether that's 
acceptable to ICANN, but I'd do it later and come back to the decision 
only if there are problems.
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