I go for 2 - we have one "election time" and get it over with in good time to send names where they need to be sent, with new positions being taken up after the AGM, and we have time for the new officers to "shadow" and get up to speed where necessary. Adam's right about the terms allowing for the "new" ALAC to vote 2x. He's also right in that we seem to get stuck on some things after we are almost agreed, and then end up starting the discussion all over again. Jacqueline -----Original Message----- From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb@bertola.eu] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:06 AM To: Roberto Gaetano Cc: alac@icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] Rules of procedure, draft 2 Roberto Gaetano ha scritto:
Wendy Seltzer wrote:
I think it's clear the new ALAC should vote for its representatives.
Absolutely.
Unless I am missing something, this implies two rounds of elections, the first one by the RALOs for the ALAC members, the second one by the ALAC for the officers.
Incidentally, there is no term for the RALOs to notify their appointments, and some RALOs might want to meet at the AGM and vote there! So there's a bit of an electoral jam here :-) Perhaps a solution (if we agree that we want to go for the third option I posted, "the new ALAC votes at the AGM") would be to add a clause that says that, even if the vote is held before the closure of the AGM (and it has to be so, because the first meeting of the new Board starts immediately after), it is the new ALAC members that vote, unless they have not been elected yet, in which case the old ALAC members vote in their place. Anyway, we could also have a clause asking RALOs to notify their appointments, say, no later than three days before the closure of the AGM. That would allow RALOs to meet in the first days of the meeting and do the election. If this is the line of conduct that we like, I will draft text to this effect - but is everyone ok with this? Could we please have a straw poll on preferences among the three options: 1) as it is now: the old ALAC votes at the AGM; 2) the old ALAC votes at the ICANN meeting before the AGM; 3) the new ALAC votes at the AGM. Up to now, I've seen Wendy for 3), and personally that's the one I prefer as well. Of course, if we prefer 1) or 3) then we have to check whether that's acceptable to ICANN, but I'd do it later and come back to the decision only if there are problems. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org www.alac.icann.org www.icannalac.org -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.1/765 - Release Date: 4/17/2007 5:20 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.1/765 - Release Date: 4/17/2007 5:20 PM