In order to shape any conference call on the Charter I
wonder if members would be kind enough to provide thoughts on the
following.
Background
Today we have 41
members, 3 elected volunteer member officers, 3 appointed credentials committee,
and 2 nom com appointees plus a part time secretariat. Additionally a number of members
contribute to ad hoc policy and other task forces etc.
Issue 1 - the
balance between doers and members
What is the right
balance between the number of annually elected positions and the membership size
?
Today (and for the
last 10 years) it is 3/41 = 7%
Draft charter
changes it to 5/41 =12%.
The draft charter
also envisages other admin committees totalling with the elected positions 13/41
=32%.
What is the right
balance between elected, appointed and ad hoc ?
Are there one
third of the BC willing to volunteer their time to non-policy work?
Is there sufficient motivation to be a member volunteer
for mostly non-policy work?
Do members want one
set of elections per year or several ?
What does it mean if
we conduct an election but less than half the members vote?
Issue 2 - balance of
independence
As ICANN starts to
offer more services what degree of independence do we want as a constituency
?
Do members wish to
authorise the release of their private data to enable ICANN
staff for instance in the future to run BC elections?
Do members
wish to entrust ICANN with the funds in the BC bank account ?
Or should the ICANN toolbox be a basket of services
that the secretariat can choose from?
Knowing how members
feel on these higher level issues may help us move forward and reach consensus
on the shape of our future Charter.
Philip