<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Dear Jeremy, </span></div><div><span><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>I
support your proposed amendment. </span></span><span><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>However,
technically, at any time, the last election that represents the election for
the last coordinator, but actually a every next election will replace the
previously elected coordinator. So, we have to consider the term period
completion of the previous coordinator. In addition to this, there may be some
cases such as any coordinator term may be for one year (as described in the
Charter) the coordinators election may be required earlier.</span><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span>So, I would suggest to review '15 months of
the previous election' and rephrase it accordingly.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span></span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span>Currently the charter <<a href="http://igcaucus.org/charter" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">http://igcaucus.org/charter</span></a>>
reads as:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>"The selection will be done by on-line voting using the voting process according
to the following formula:<br>
* election of the coordinator will be held, whenever possible by midsummer (the
summer solstice). If events prevent an election by midsummer, it will be held
as soon after midsummer as possible."</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span></span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><span>It may be amended as:</span></span></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">"<font size="2" face="Tahoma">The selection will be done by on-line voting using the voting process according to the following formula:<br></font>
</font><span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>*
election of the coordinator will be held, whenever possible by the ending of
the term period of the "outgoing coordinator". If events prevent an
election by the completion of term, it will be held as soon after then."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span><span></span></div><div><span>Regards</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Imran Ahmed Shah</span></div><div><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 14 January 2013, 9:54<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Notice to the IGC on Proposed Charter Amendments<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv174306141">
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<div class="yiv174306141moz-cite-prefix">On 14/01/13 06:47, Deirdre Williams
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">My comment refers to point 5 below:
<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Before
the initiation of the Voting eBallot, all voting members are
requested to inform the IGC if they feel that there are other
necessary amendments to be made to the Charter and a period
of 48 hours is given to allow members to respond."</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Is there any
reason that we cannot deal with these amendments piecemeal?</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Avri has made
a powerful and convincing proposal that has received a good
deal of support.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I propose
therefore that we should vote on this amendment to this
section of the Charter now.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">As other
amendments are proposed we can deal with them.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Attempts to
review the whole Charter together have been unsuccessful.
Perhaps making a review section by section will work better.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">What do others
think?</font></div>
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<br>
I think that other amendments should be considered at the same
time. Here are the other amendments that I would like to propose be
added to the ballot:<br>
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<li><span class="yiv174306141author-a-z83zz87z9z87zz80zz88zqz74zz82zoz88zi2ju0">Under
"Selection of Coordinators", regarding when elections are
held, change "by midsummer (the summer solstice) to "within
15 months of the previous election". Also in "If events
prevent an election by midsummer, it will be held as soon
after midsummer as possible," change the word "midsummer" to
"then" in both places.</span></li>
<li><span class="yiv174306141author-a-z83zz87z9z87zz80zz88zqz74zz82zoz88zi2ju0">Under
"Working methods", update the address of the mailing list
from <a class="yiv174306141moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a> to
<a class="yiv174306141moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>.</span></li>
</ul>
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<div id="yiv174306141magicdomid10" class="yiv174306141">The last of these, in particular,
should be a no-brainer.<br>
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