[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANNATLARGE.com elections starting

Wed Jul 17 21:08:03 CEST 2002

I would encourage people to participate in this election, such as by 
offering to run for the 11 member board.   If anyone wants to run for the 
board and doesn't know what to do, send me a note (by friday) and I'm make 
sure you are nominated, but basically, you can send a note to this address:

atlarge discuss list <atlarge-discuss at lists.fitug.de>

indicating who you nominate, or that you accept a nomination.  You have to 
be a member to stand for the board, but this is easy to do, by going here 
and filling out a few details:

http://www.icannatlarge.com/register.php

Jamie

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Announce: ICANNATLARGE.com elections starting
Date: 16 Jul 2002 20:00:55 -0000
From: icannatlarge.com Chairman <info at icannatlarge.com>
To: james.love at cptech.org

Dear icannatlarge.com member,

as the mandate of the previous interim panel expires, it is now
time to elect a new group of persons to guide the organization
for the next 12 months. Thus we are now starting an election for
this purpose.

The nomination period is now open. If you want, you can nominate
your candidates for the panel (chosen among the members of this
organization) before the end of Monday, July 22 (GMT), by posting
to the atlarge-discuss mailing list(*).

You will later receive by e-mail a ballot form with the names of
the candidates and the instructions about how to vote. After July
22, candidates will introduce themselves on our website; you will
be able to debate about them using the forums on our website or
the atlarge-discuss mailing list. Voting will happen between
Sunday, July 28 and Saturday, August 4. Attached below you will
find the full Charter for these elections.

This election will mark an important moment for our organization,
as representation of the public in the technical administration of
the Internet is still under heavy discussion inside and outside
ICANN. Thus we need the attention and support of all our members.
Please take some time to participate in this election.

Thanks,

Vittorio Bertola
Current icannatlarge.com Chairman

(*) We hope you are already subscribed to the atlarge-discuss
list; however, here are the instructions: to post, send a message
to atlarge-discuss at lists.fitug.de; to subscribe, send an empty
message to  atlarge-discuss-subscribe at lists.fitug.de; archives
may be found at http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/ .

ELECTIONS OF A PANEL FOR ICANNATLARGE.COM

Given the fact that the deadline for the current interim panel of
icannatlarge.com is approaching, a new election for a longer term
panel for the icannatlarge.com effort is now starting.

The purpose is to select a group of members that represent different
views, cultures and geographical areas inside the At Large movement,
have some technical and organizational skills, and are willing to
devote a significant amount of their time to this effort in the next
12 months.

MANDATE OF THE PANEL

The panel shall be composed of eleven members of the icannatlarge.com
effort.

The mandate of the panel will be that of running the organization in
all its aspects, including but not limited to:

1. guiding an outreach campaign so that the highest possible number of
active users of the Internet who might want to participate in ICANN
are informed of the effort and can register on icannatlarge.com if
they wish, and that the membership grows to a point where it can be
considered sufficiently representative of such users;

2. continuing the public and open discussion of Bylaws for a new At
Large Membership organization, trying to gather consensus, consider
all inputs, unify all efforts, and put together in the shortest
possible amount of time one or more proposals of Bylaws to be then
submitted and approved by a majority vote of the membership, and after
such approval, formally incorporate the organization;

3. defending the role of the public for what related to Internet
matters currently governed by ICANN, and guiding a discussion about
whether and how the organization should take part to the internal
processes ICANN will establish for public input and participation;

4. managing the icannatlarge.com website, directly and/or by
appointing webmasters;

5. managing to hold the election of the next officers of the
organization before the term of the panel expires.

The panel shall expire and conclude its work after twelve months from
its election.

OPERATIONAL DETAILS AND TIMEFRAME

All persons registering on icannatlarge.com before the end of Monday
22 July 2002 (GMT) will be entitled to vote. All voters will receive
their ballot by e-mail at the e-mail address they used when
registering to icannatlarge.com.

Those members who want to nominate other members or second nominations
should post a nomination/second message in the "Second Elections"
forum on the website or to the atlarge-discuss mailing list by the end
of Monday 22 July 2002 (GMT). To be included in the list of the
candidates, nominated members will have to accept the nomination by
posting a message in the same forum, or by sending an e-mail to the
election watchdogs or to the atlarge-discuss mailing list, before
12:00pm (midday) of Tuesday 23 July 2002 (GMT).

Candidates will be asked to provide details for a candidate page that
will be set up on the site after finalizing the candidate list. A
public debate about the candidates will be hold in the atlarge-discuss
list and in the "Second Elections" forum of the icannatlarge.com
website until July 27.

Voting will occur between Sunday 28 July and Saturday 4 August 2002
(GMT).

VOTING SYSTEM

Each voter will receive by e-mail a ballot message, which needs to be
completed by adding a X inside the square brackets [ ] near to the
name of the candidates that the voter wants to be endorse, and then to
be sent back to the originating e-mail address. More detailed
instructions will be found in the ballot message - we recommend all
voters to read it carefully.

Each voter will be allowed to endorse up to eleven names taken from
the list of the candidates. Voters should support all candidates that
seem best fit to the position, so that those who seem suitable to most
members will be chosen. Overall results will not be made visible to
voters before the booth is closed.

The eleven candidates who receive the highest number of votes will be
elected, provided that they have received at least 15 votes; if there
are not eleven candidates above this threshold, the number of members
of the panel will be reduced accordingly.

Ties (if any) will be solved by ordering names by the number of
candidates of the same ICANN Region that received more votes than the
tied ones (the lowest first, so to help diversity among regions), then
the same by country.

The voting system will be kindly provided by the DNSO Secretariat - so
the current panel wants to thank Elisabeth Porteneuve for this.
Elections will be overviewed by the following watchdogs (whom also we
want to thank):

Bret Fausett <fausett at lextext.com>
Walter Schmidt <walts at dorsai.org>
Alexander Svensson <svensson at icannchannel.de>

PANEL RULES

The panel will choose, by majority vote, a Chair, with the role of
coordinating the discussion and the meetings. If agreement on a Chair
cannot be reached after seven days from the election, the candidate
that received the highest number of votes will be the Chair.

All decisions in the panel will be taken by explicit online vote on
the panel mailing list, called by the Chair and lasting at least two
days (unless a final result is reached before). Decisions will be
taken by majority of the non-abstaining votes expressed, provided that
at least five members of the panel expressed a vote.

If any of the eleven seats in the panel becomes vacant (ie because of
resignation, lack of suitable candidates...) it will be filled by the
first non elected candidate from the original election, provided that
he received at least 15 votes. If no suitable candidates are available
from the original election, and the number of remaining members in the
panel is lower than five, a new election will be held to fill the
vacant seat.

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James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:love at cptech.org
voice: 1.202.387.8030; mobile 1.202.361.3040