"The Chair could be responsible to determine which ALSes made contributions that are "worthwhile"". _________________________________________ Luc Faubert Conseiller en gouvernance TI et en gestion du changement / IT governance and change management consulting +1 514 236 5129 www.LucFaubert.com www.isoc.qc.ca www.ccig.ca www.maillons.qc.ca
-----Original Message----- From: Thompson, Darlene [mailto:DThompson@GOV.NU.CA] Sent: 16 avril 2007 08:59 To: Luc Faubert; John L; Bret Fausett Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: RE: [NA-Discuss] Action Items
Overall good - but who decides which contributions are "worthwhile"?
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Luc Faubert Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:02 PM To: John L; Bret Fausett Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Action Items
Policy contributions of ALSes can take 2 forms: - contributions to NARALO positions, - independent comments to ICANN (the sort you refer to, John, for which I think the evaluation method you propose is good [we could ask orgs that send independent comments to cc the NA-DISCUSS list]).
An easily measurable criterion could thus be worthwhile activity on our NA-DISCUSS list in the last 12 months. The Chair could be responsible to determine which ALSes made contributions that are "worthwhile", examples of activity that could be considered worthwhile being at least one instance of: - a cc to the list of a comment sent directly to ICANN, - semantic contributions to discussions/positions, as opposed to just approve/disapprove.
We could require both conditions for ALSes to have the right to vote: - having made at least one worthwhile contribution on the list in the last 12 months, - having voted at least once in the last 3 elections.
_________________________________________ Luc Faubert Conseiller en gouvernance TI et en gestion du changement / IT governance and change management consulting +1 514 236 5129 www.LucFaubert.com www.isoc.qc.ca www.ccig.ca www.maillons.qc.ca
-----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of John L Sent: 14 avril 2007 01:05 To: Bret Fausett Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Action Items
In my experience, a "best practice" for bylaws is to have some super-majority for initial adoption and also for subsequent amendment. It provides legitimacy by establishing widespread support for the rules.
Agreed. If we can't get a supermajority to say explicitly that they at least don't object, we don't have agreement.
Given our experience with ALAC members who went AWOL, I also agree that we need a simple process to deal with people who've lost interest. We don't have to eject them, but we at least need to make them not count as part of a quorum. My suggestion for considering someone an active member would be a published comment on an ICANN issue within the preceding 18 months. That just requires following the issues and sending one e-mail message.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
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