[governance] Results of charter amendment vote

[Roland Perry]

In message <1254126997.4022.200.camel at anriette-laptop>, at 10:36:37 on 
Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> writes
>One of the really awkward things we had to get around was that
>California law does not allow for asynchronous online meetings of the
>organisation's governing bodies (we have a board, and a member council).
>Eletronic meetings are considered legal, but only if they are in real
>time using telephone, online or video conferencing.
>
>We found this very annoying as we have always worked asynchronously, and
>want to to continue to do so. It is cheaper, suits people who are busy,
>and who are located in just about all timezones.
>
>To get around this we have developed a complex methodology for online
>meetings that involved an online "pre-meeting discussion" which can be
>asynchronous, and which is then followed by a written ballot which can
>be submitted electronically.

Presumably this is the reason for the ICANN system of Board meetings, 
where they do considerable work asynchronously (even sometimes in 
different rooms of the same hotel) then vote on the last day of the 
meeting without there appearing to be much discussion of the issues?
-- 
Roland Perry
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