[governance] Amending the charter was Re: [] Survey ….

[Avri Doria]

On 20 Feb 2012, at 02:12, Imran Ahmed Shah wrote:

> Thinking from a different angle, if someone has 10 members, he can make any of the positive or negative changes in the IGC Charter. 

All they can do is get a ballot established on the issue.  The change must still be approved by 2/3 of the qualified members - those who voted in the last election (though we still have a questions about what it means to have voted)

> Rather than it should be responsibility of the coordinators to encourage list / voting members to participate in the charter modification process to make the procedures in a better form. So, my recommendations are as follows:
> 

I disagree with this point.

I think it is up to the proponents of a change to drum up support for their change.  I think they can do this on the open list.  I would also note that this is how it was done when the qualified caucus amended the charter in the past and it worked quite well.

Of course if you want to amend the charter to require action by the co-cos as stated in your note, then that is something that you and 9 others who agree with you can have put to a vote by the qualified members.

In Sela's reply there seemed to be an implication (forgive me if I misunderstood, it is what i inferred) that it was up to Jeremy's WG to review all amendments.  I do not think this is the case.  Any 10 people can submit amendments anytime - they do not need to be processed first by any group or by the co-cos for that matter.  There is certainly no problem with Jeremy and a group of likeminded individuals getting together to propose amendments, it is just that the Charter does not give special status to a WG and its requests.  It is, for all intents and purposes the same as any self-selected group of 10 or more members who might decided to put a proposal for charter amendment.  For example, while I disagree with Imran's suggestions, he could find 9 other qualified members who agreed with him through on /off list discussions and put forward an amendment proposal that the co-cos would have to put to a vote of the qualified members.

avri
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