[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Izumi AIZU]

Dear list,

A Happy New year to all! This will be a crucial year and I hope
we can manage that to advance our cause around IGF and WSIS.

As Jeremy explained, we had no intention to change the Charter or its
interpretation when trying to change the database management.

And yes, it is somewhat confusing to have different levels of membership
in our Carter. They are with good reasons, too, however, I think.
I am not against the review of the Charter, but I agree with Jeremy in that
we need a willing group of members and also a good deal of discussion
on the list.

izumi

2011/1/4 Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>:
> On 02/01/2011, at 9:12 PM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>
> "Official IGC members" are those who subscribe to the list, NOT those "who
> voted in the last coordinator elections". The definition in Jeremy's message
> seems to me to be a fundamental change in the intention of the charter.
>
> There are so many different levels of membership in the charter that it is
> indeed confusing:
> * Those who self-identified as members and voted in the last coordinator
> elections, who are the only members entitled to vote on charter amendments.
>  These are whom I was referring to above, though maybe "full" would have
> been a better choice of words than "official".
> * Those who self-identified as members prior to the last coordinator
> election, who are (perhaps?) also still members, but can't vote on charter
> amendments.  The charter is ambiguous about whether you have to renew your
> self-identification every year.  In favour of this view, a member may have
> moved into government service  since their previous self-identification.
>  Against, even if you do work for government, you may feel that you can
> still self-identify as an IGC member in your personal capacity.
> * Those who participate in the mailing list, but have never self-identified
> as members (whom I called "lurkers"). So, I disagree with your point that
> there is no such thing as a non-member lurker.
> But, I agree that it would be better to completely review the charter, if
> only we had a willing group of members to undertake this task.
> --
>
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