[governance] Results of charter amendment vote

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Roland and all,

  We don't know for a fact that durring ICANN gatherings that Noard members
do "Considerable Work" asynchronously and so the Calif. law is correct
in it's effacacy accordingly.  This could be mitigated however if all of the
Board members were far more open and transparent and would release
and or make public all asynchronous activities as Board members and/or
in any capacity with respect to ICANN.  I doubt that such will occur
however.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
>Sent: Sep 28, 2009 4:34 AM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>Subject: Re: [governance] Results of charter amendment vote
>
>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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