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Re: [council] Term limits


Greg & fellow council members:

In response to your comments Greg, i would remind you that rules & guidelines developed by "non-ISP" constituency bodies ( i.e.ICANN BY-LAWS) currently impose requirements to the ISP constituency (as well as all constituencies) on who they can and cannot select to serve on the council.

They do this by requiring:
1. that each representative from a constituency should be
from a different geographic region and
2.No 2 councilors can be from the same company.

When the ISP constituency originally applied to ICANN for recognition, your constituency as well as the others ACKNOWLEDGED & ACCEPTED the fact that rules could be promulgated by non constituency entities which could impact constituency representation on the Council.

The opportunity for selection of representatives for each constituency is still solely the constituency's, but, since inception, your selections have always been made subject to outside guidelines.

Your constituency as well as mine has lived with this "fact of life"
since our constituencies were established & recognized by ICANN.

This concept is nothing new here !

Regards

Ken Stubbs



Greg Ruth wrote:
Ross,
     Let me amplify my point.  I am simply saying that it should be up
to each constituency alone to decide who may or may not represent it. I do not believe it is appropriate for anyone outside the ISPs to tell
us whom we can choose to represent us in the Council; that would be
tantamount to exerting control over our constituency.

Greg
--- Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Greg Ruth wrote:
Philip et al,
    Whether we are "leaping" or not, I agree we should have a
discussion.  And I believe it can start now, on this list.  My
opinion
is that, except in the case of NomCom appointees (who represent no
constituency), the matter of term limits should be left for each
constituency to decide for itself.
My personal view is that the Council and the Board should decide how this group is constituted in order that the basic foundations for our

processes and outcomes are stable and predictable. I don't think that

this is a constituency decision any more than it is a constituency decision regarding how many reps from each constituency sit on the Council, or the term of those seats, etc.

 From my perspective, the first question that we should be looking at
is whether or no term limits are desirable. The second question is whose

responsibility it is to implement them (or not). (i.e. if limits are desirable, then is this a board, council or constituency decision?).

-ross




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