[governance] Suggested amendment for the charter. Nomcom. Still needs signatories

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

At this point, 6 people have signed on as proposers of this amendment.

Avri Doria
Chaitanya Dhareshwar 
Fouad Bajwa 
Louis Pouzin 
Norbert Bollow 
Pranesh Prakash

Please let me know if your name is included in error, or if I forgot to include your name.

I think I have caught the editorial changes that were requested.  Thanks to those who found them. Please let me know if I missed something or messed something up anew.

thanks

avri
-----


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 missing 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 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) years are required before a non-voting chair may serve again as either a volunteer or a non-voting chair.  A term-limited volunteer may serve as non-voting chair.
"



-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t