I see good points in Adam's position. -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Adam Peake Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 10:40 AM To: ALAC Working List Subject: Re: [ALAC] Final Draft of White Paper on At-Large Board Member Selection (ABS) and Appointment process for your pre release feedback Thanks everyone for pulling this together. Very good document. A couple of comments: I'd like to white paper to make clear At Large believes it essential it has a second Director position, and until such time as there is a second voting Director the liaison should remain. The paper doesn't recommend the size of the slate/number of candidates on the ballot, but I get the sense it might be quite late (12+) Or am I missing something? I don't like using single transferable vote when there's just one position to vote for. The hybrid option acceptable if there's to be a very large slate. I find the paper's arguments for plurality voting persuasive. If RALO's can direct how their delegates vote then the processes the RALO uses to decide on which candidate to vote for should be transparent, rules made clear before hand. Patrick, about ALS as voters: I think this should be the goal, and the paper should state this. But I don't think it is practical now. And I believe it was rejected in Seoul. But it should be At Large's goal for the future. Best, Adam At 7:55 AM +1100 1/9/10, Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
The ad-hoc ABS-wg formed after our community call on Dec 22nd to draft a White Paper for community discussion and feedback on the topic has asked me to forward to this list the attached copy for you pre-public release feedback and comments.
Putting this together (particularly at this time of year has been quite a heroic effort and as ALAC Chair I want to thank the WG members and our staff (particularly Heidi) for doing such an amazing and professional job!
The ES & FR Versions will follow to this list shortly and we would appreciate if native language users could cross check these for accuracy with the original EN version as we are only using a machine translation tool.
The Wiki pages for comments are set up in a separate page per section to aid collection and collation of comments and these links will be forwarded to you shortly.
You should also note that we have arranged for the Final of this paper to be subject to the normal ICANN public comment processes which means that we will be 'publishing' this final on the 11th to fit with the required pre Nairobi meeting papers deadlines... I do apologize for the resulting compression of time you all now have to make your comments before this date but as this has been an extensively discussed matter it really should be an editorial rather than substantiative task.
Please make all comments etc., back to THIS LIST ONLY. until all our public comment and feedback options are finalized and set up in the next few days.
-- Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO)
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