[governance] Proposal for an amendment to the IGC charter

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi Natasha and McTim, thanks for your support.

Please keep in mind that there will be a formal vote to get the proposal 
implemented. We have just taken the first threshold to initiate the process.

jeanette

Natasha Primo wrote:
> also add me and anriette esterhuysen 
> 
> regards,
> natasha
> 
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> On 19 Aug 2009, at 9:06 PM, McTim wrote:
> 
>> Count me as +1
>>
>> rgds,
>>  
>> McTim
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu 
>> <mailto: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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