Re: [ga] At Large Board Seat

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/15/2009 08:09 PM, Danny Younger wrote:

> here are the relevant Board meeting minutes:
>
> b.Voting Director Appointed from the At Large
>
> The Board received an update from Staff regarding the Board review
> Working Group recommendation for the inclusion of a voting director
> appointed from the At Large. The Board discussed some potential
> implementation hurdles that must be resolved, though recognized that
> approving of the recommendation in principle would then allow for the
> planning of the implementation.
Which is slightly at odds with the fact that we (the "Working Group") 
recommended *two* voting seats not a singular "a voting director".
Although I don't remember the exact words we used, our intent was that 
the "at large" mean the broad community of internet users, not merely 
the ALAC, and that the mechanism of choice be something in which the 
members of that larger community have have, in some cumulative way yet 
to be designed, to pick and choose the people to be seated.
In my own mind it seems to me that we opened the door to the ALAC to 
make a definite and detailed proposal of how that may work.  I have been 
disappointed, but unfortunately, not surprised, to see nothing.  In this 
absence "staff" has been handed a blank sheet of paper on which it can 
expand in any and all directions.
The ALAC still has time, but not much time, to draw some faint 
containment lines on that sheet.
In our working group I felt that this issue needed a broader field, that 
the question of publicly seated directors needed to address, or to my 
mind "redress", the nominating committee system, the question whether 
the President should have an automatic voting seat on the board (I've 
always felt that that was a very wrong choice), elimination of the 
misconceived ombudsman, a requirement to re-enact (or not) decisions of 
the past (such as the UDRP) so that the public directors can finally 
have a voice in the decision, etc.
                --karl--