[governance] Notice to the IGC on Proposed Charter Amendments

[parminder]

On Monday 14 January 2013 10:24 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> I think that other amendments should be considered at the same time.  
> Here are the other amendments that I would like to propose be added to 
> the ballot:
>
>   * Under "Selection of Coordinators", regarding when elections are
>     held, change "by midsummer (the summer solstice) to "within 15
>     months of the previous election".  Also in "If events prevent an
>     election by midsummer, it will be held as soon after midsummer as
>     possible," change the word "midsummer" to "then" in both places.
>


If the charter says 'within 15 months', there would almost always be a 
tendency towards delaying and the election would go to the 15th month, 
and I am not sure this is the best thing to do.

I think we should simply change "by midsummer (the summer solstice)" to 
"by midwinter (the winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere) "

or better still to avoid any valorisation of the North over South :), to

"by the December solstice"

Because we have got into this post IGF elections cycle which is quite 
appropriate given the intensive engagement that IGC has with the IGF...

However, I dont insist that this amendment is considered at the same 
time as the other proposed ones.

parminder


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> The last of these, in particular, should be a no-brainer.
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