[governance] Proposal for an amendment to the IGC charter

[Charity Gamboa]

Hi Jeanette and all,

Is it possible perhaps to include from the draft posting rules that ENGLISH
should be the language of the list? Some of us do not speak Latin, French et
al and English is our common ground as we all also have our own local/native
language. This way, it does not also exclude others and some may
intentionally discredit or attack someone personally by using a different
language (could be an act of defiance). Just a thought. Thanks!

Regards,
Charity G.E.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:

>
>
> To the IGC Caucus and IGC Caucus Coordinators:
>
> According to the IGC Charter, Amendments to the Charter are made
> according to the following process:
>
> This charter can be amended at any time as proposed by no fewer
> than ten (10) members and as approved by no less than two-thirds (2/3)
> of the members of the IGC. The membership requirements for amending
> the charter are based on the most currently available voters list.
> In amending the charter, everyone who voted in the previous election will
> be
> deemed a member for amending the charter.
>
> Because of the events on the list over the last month or longer, the
> undersigned have decided to propose Posting Rule amendments to the charter
> (attached to this email) that will make it less problematic to deal with
> disruptive behavior on the IG Caucus list in the future.  Part of the
> problem we are trying to remedy is the fact that the sole responsibility
> rests with the coordinators without them having any clear guidelines or
> assistance.
>
> In proposing these amendments we looked at RFC 3683 "A Practice for
> Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists"
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3683.txt
>  RFC 3934 and  "Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF
> Mailing Lists" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3934.txt, as well as the
> rules currently in effect for ICANN's GA List for guidance.
>
> The proposed amendment contains the following elements:
>
> - statement of the purpose of the IGC list
> - set of guidelines for decorum on the IGC list and any other IGC
> lists that may be created
> - description of inappropriate postings for IGC list(s)
>
> We are also proposing that the coordinators can create, if they desire
> to do so, an advisory body to help them in determining when the
> posting rules have been infringed.  The decision and responsibility of
> when to take action is, however, still left with the coordinators.
>
> If this charter amendment is accepted by a 2/3 vote of the current
> members, action for suspension of removal can be initiated in the
> following manner:
>
> a. the coordinators decide on their own that action needs to be taken
> b. the advisory group recommends it to coordinators and they agree
> that action needs to be taken
> c. a group of 20 IGC members publicly petitions the coordinators to
> consider action and the coordinators agree actions should be taken
>
> The appeals mechanism remains the same as it is in the current charter:
>
>  ? Any decision for suspension can be appealed.
>> Any decision to remove someone from the list will
>> call for an automatic appeal by the appeals team.
>>
>
> Signed by the following members of the IGC as listed on
> http://www.igcaucus.org/
>
>
> Carlos A.Afonso
> Vittorio Bertola
> Wilie Curie
> Avri Doria (co-author)
> Wiliam Drake
> Bret Fausett
> Robin Gross
> Michael Gurstein
> Jeanette Hofmann (co-author)
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter
> Jeremy Malcolm
> Lee W. McKnight
> Jacqueline A. Morris
> Adam Peake
> Parminder Singh
> David Souter
> Christopher Wilkinson
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