[governance] Typo corrected amendments suggestion (adding a heading, nomcom) (was Re: Suggested amendment...)

Pranesh Prakash pranesh at cis-india.org
Wed Jan 9 15:46:24 EST 2013


I can't think of any good reasons against the proposed amendments, and
support both Amendment 1, and Amendment 2 (both parts).

Minor corrections:
"term limited" -> "term-limited"
"term -limited" -> "term-limited" / "limited-term"

~ Pranesh

Norbert Bollow [2013-01-09 23:15]:
> I support the two amendment proposals below, subject to the
> noted typo corrections...
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for point out that I neglected to Include the heading I meant
>> to add.
>>
>> On 9 Jan 2013, at 11:24, Avri Doria wrote:
>>
>>> Amendments to the Charter
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> Amendment 1:
>>
>> Currently the charter <http://igcaucus.org/charter> reads as:
>>
>> "
>> Any such request will require a public response from the
>> coordinators' within a week indicating the action taken and with an
>> explanation of the reasons for the action.
>>
>> All nominations to external bodies, e.g., the IGF multistakholder
>> advisory group, will be made using a randomly selected nomcom process
>> as defined here. "
>>
>>
>>
>> Add Heading to Nominations section.  New text:
>>
>> "
>> Any such request will require a public response from the
>> coordinators' within a week indicating the action taken and with an
>> explanation of the reasons for the action.
>>
>> <bold>Nominations to External Bodies</bold>
>>
>>
>> All nominations to external bodies, e.g., the IGF multistakholder
> 
> "multistakholder" -> "multistakeholder"
> 
>> advisory group, will be made using a randomly selected nomcom process
>> as defined here. "
>>
>>
>> Amendment 2:
>>
>> Currently the Nomcom process <http://www.igcaucus.org/node/2> reads
>> as:
>>
>> "
>> 8. Each nomcom will be selected for a specific decision and will be
>> disbanded after the decision is made.However, in special cases where
>> several different nominating committees would need to be completed in
>> a shortened time frame that did not allow for multiple nominating
>> committees, the co-coordinators may jointly request one nominating
>> committee to fill several functions.
>>
>> 9. There is no limit on the number of nomcoms an individual may serve
>> on. "
>>
>> Proposed changes 
>>
>> 1. Change to 1 Nomcom per year
>> 2. Restrict members of Nomcom to 2 consecutive terms 
>>
>> Change text to:
>>
>> "
>> 8.  Each Nomcom will serve for one year.
>>
>> 9. Nomcom Volunteers and non-voting chairs may serve a maximum of two
>> consecutive terms.  An intervening year is required before any term
>> limited volunteer may volunteer for the random process.  An
>> intervening two (2) intervening year are required beofe a non-voting
> 
> "beofe" -> "before"
> 
> "intervening year" -> "years" (this change corrects the accidental
> duplication of the word "intervening" and the omission of the plural-s
> after "year")
> 
>> chair may serve again as either a volunteer or a non-voting chair.  A
>> term -limited volunteer may serve as non-voting chair. "
> 


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Pranesh Prakash
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Centre for Internet and Society
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