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Re: [council] Fwd: GA
Hi,
Thank you for the clarification.
From my perspective, while there is not a General Assembly, there is
a GA List, and that list seems to be trying to organize itself and
become useful contributors. It is that, specifically list operations
for a better behaved list, which I am recommending we support. I am
not making any recommendations or statements concerning the re-
introduction of a General Assembly and am explicitly trying to say
that we have no involvement in the internal organization of the GA list.
I apologize if I was sufficiently clear on this.
a.
On 20 aug 2007, at 11.23, Ross Rader wrote:
Avri -
One small point of clarification - there is no General Assembly
(GA) of the GNSO. There is only a mailing list that was used by the
former GA of the DNSO which was not shut down when the DNSO was
reformed into the GNSO (at which time the General Assembly was
eliminated/not carried forward).
Procedurally speaking, there cannot be a request from the GA
because it does not exist. If there is a case to be made to
recreate the former GA as part of the GNSO, it should be made as
part of the GNSO reform discussion and not considered in isolation.
Avri Doria wrote:
Hi,
As far as I can tell, we all received a copy of this email from
the GA chair. Even so, given the council's responsibility for the
GA list, I wanted to send it to the list so that it would be
included in our archives.
As an initial approach, I would like to do the following with
regard to the GA charter (found at http://www.geolang.com/
draftGAListRules5.htm):
- Acknowledge the GA request for consideration of their charter.
- Given the council's by-law responsibilities for the moderation
of the GA list, encourage them in taking steps to bring order and
discipline to the GA list and indicate that they have the
council's support in implementing the mailing list rules indicated
in Section 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 with the following exception in
section 2:
The Announce list is available for official pronouncements only.
Emanating from the Secretariat of the NC and/or the Chair of the GA
In this case, the GA-announce list is solely for the use of the
GNSO Secretariat for notifying the GA subscribers of GNSO and
other ICANN informational items. I do not recommend we make any
change at this time in this list's status.
- With regard to the organizational sections of the charter,
specifically 6, 8, and 9, indicate that the GA is free to
determine its own organizational structure, with the following
exceptions in section 8 on elections:
An election is usually held near the end of the term of office
for the chair of the General Assembly. The exact time is decided
by the outgoing Chair and the Chair of the GNSO.
Nominees for the Chair are sent to an email address provided by
the Secretariat.
- With regards to the exceptions listed above, as I read them,
they require activity by the council, its chair and secretariat
that are not specifically mandated by the by-laws. Since the by-
laws governing the GNSO and its governance structure are currently
under review by the ICANN Board and its Governance WG, I recommend
that we postpone any discussion of these issues until after the
GSNO council's new governance situation is settled and understood.
I should also point out that there was an earlier request that the
GNSO council create another public discussion list, similar to the
GA list but limited to members of existing GNSO constituencies.
The request was independently submitted by a member of one GNSO
constituency, but was not backed up by that constituency at that
time, so I did not take it further. I am bringing it up now for
completeness sake.
I suggest that we try and resolve the issue of my response to the
GA request over the email list. If there is need I will list this
item under AOB in the next agenda, but if there are no objections
to the response I suggest or to a modification of the response
that we can agree to on the list, perhaps I can go ahead with a
response without the need for a specific agenda item.
Thanks
a.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18 augusti 2007 12.23.50 EDT
To: avri@xxxxxxx
Subject: GA
Dear Councilors,
This letter is a formal request from the GNSO General Assembly
for recognition of our List Rules and for a directive that we be
allowed to interface with those in control of the List in order
to implement our new rules.
Our GA list will be more effective in contributing to the
business of the GNSO if we are allowed a modicum of self
governance. Within the Rules we have provided for reasonable self
organization and a disciplinary regimen.
We are mindful of the differences which from time to time may
exist between the GA and the existing structural members of
ICANN. It is by establishing procedures and restraints that we
hope to change those differences into contributions.
Please earnestly consider this request.
Respectfully,
Eric Hugh Dierker
GA Chair
http://www.geolang.com/draftGAListRules5.htm
or
http://www.geolang.com/draftGAListRules5.txt
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