[governance] the IGC charter

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Avri and all,

  Thank you so much for this enlightening bit of information.  I
am sure it is properly appriciated by others, if not all.

Avri Doria wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am probably no longer a member (or at least 2 days away from being
> de-facto ejected from the caucus) so my view on the charter is
> probably irrelevant, but of course you are right.
>
> Though one could argue that it gave the coordinators two chances to be
> timely per year.    Not that that the IGC got anywhere close to the
> either of the first solstices. But this is soon after the second
> summer solstice in the north.
>
> Curiously there were both Southern and Northern people involved in
> writing and reviewing the charter and no one commented until now.
>
> By the way is it called midsummer in the South?
>
> a.
>
> (a teacher of summer school, in both the north and the south.)
>
> On 12 Jul 2008, at 17:40, David Goldstein wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've had a look at the IGC charter as a result of Parminder's email
> > about preparing a list of members for the caucus. However there is
> > one big flaw. Often there are criticisms from countries of the
> > "south" about the way the "north" does things. However there is a
> > case of the north, and in this case northern hemisphere participants
> > being blind to the southern hemisphere.
> >
> > Under "selection of coordinators" it says "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." See www.igcaucus.org/IGC-charter_final-061014.html
> > .
> >
> > One would presume it is the northern hemisphere summer being
> > referred to. But there are TWO summer solstices. Us folk in the
> > southern hemisphere have one too. Given the summer solstice date
> > changes a day or so every now and then, this should ideally be
> > changed to a date such as June 1 or July 1 or some such agreed date.
> >
> > There is also a second issue I would like to see added at some
> > stage, and that is that the mailing lists referred to should have a
> > statement that comments should be kept to the topic of internet
> > goverance.
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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