On 28 Sep 2007, at 08:22, Bret Fausett wrote:
The ALAC voted on the candidates on the same page, and the results were as indicated.
If the RALOs, or individual ALSes, believe that the Bylaws should be changed in some manner which would affect future NomCom appointments, it would be for them to suggest that.
The bylaws only say that the ALAC annually shall "appoint" five delegates to the NomComm. They do not say that the ALAC is required to "vote" to make the appointments, so I think it would be a misreading to say that the bylaws dictated the process that the ALAC followed.
The Bylaws are indeed silent as to the mechanisms by which the ALAC shall choose whom to appoint to the NomCom.
As I mentioned on the list prior to the selection, in past years the ALAC representatives from each region gathered to make their selection, and then the other regions simply ratified those regional choices. Under the "voting" process that was followed this year, however, it is theoretically possible that a person could be elected from a region without having any support from the ALAC representatives of that region. In an extreme example, North America, South American and Europe, voting as a block, could dictate the representatives for Africa and Asia. That result is made possible by the procedure followed here, but it was not dictated by the bylaws.
As to your last point, you are correct that it is not dictated by the Bylaws - however, as the Bylaws are silent on this point the Bylaws clearly do not prevent the ALAC from voting in the manner they have chosen to follow, either.