Proposed disposition - Re: Sinclair comments - Members review of Draft Proposed NCSG Charter

[Andrew A. Adams]

> RS-5  2.2.5 On New Individual Members (Deletion)
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> 3. An Individual who is employed by or a member of a large noncommercial organization (universities, colleges, large NGOs) and it is too complicated or the Individual lacks the standing to get his/her organization to join on an organizational basis. This person can join NCSG in his or her individual capacity. The Executive Committee shall, at its discretion, determine limits to the total number of Individual members who can join from any single organization (provided the limit shall apply to all Organizations equally).
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> Delete:   and it is too complicated or the Individual lacks the standing to get his/her organization to join on an organizational basis. This
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> Proposed Handling:  Accept the deletion in principle, but change:
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> An Individual who is employed by or a member of a large noncommercial organization
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> to
> 
> An Individual who is employed by or a member of a large non-member noncommercial organization

I think this needs some careful wording to avoid confusion in the two uses of 
the word member here (One refers to the individual being a member of an 
organisation, the other to the organisation not being a member of NCSG). I 
think this wording might cause confusion, so perhaps the wording:

An individual who is employed by or is a member of a large non-commercial 
organisation (which is not already a member of NCSG).

Also, I would like a note making it plain that being employed by an 
organisation which has legitimate grounds for being an NCSG member does not 
preclude someone joining as an individual member on their own rights. So, for 
example, I am employed by Meiji University (meiji.ac.jp) in Japan, a 
non-profit private university. Meiji is entitled to join NCSG under the 
proposed new constitution, but so am I. While I _could_ join under the above 
clause I am a member of NCUC on the basis of my own domain registration 
(a-cubed.info) and also as an academic working on the area of information 
ethics, which includes IANA and DNS related issues. I'd hate to be forced out 
because my employer joined NCSG as an organisation.


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Profesor Andrew A Adams       aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan