[governance] Re: Proposal for an amendment to the IGC charter relating to List Posting rules

[Ginger Paque]

Dear all,
 
Thanks to the involved group of people for this charter amendment proposal.

We should now allow approximately a week of discussion, and then should proceed to a vote on the proposed amendment starting about Monday August 31 if that is appropriate and confirmed later next week.


Regards,
Ginger Paque and Ian Peter
IGC co-coordinators



Jeanette Hofmann 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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