[CCWG-ACCT] Addressing future scenarios in the present

[James Gannon]

While I appreciate the situation your describing I have to fundamentally disagree with its application to our situation, its a prime example of why we should be acting now.

Its both prudent risk management and good corporate governance to have strong planning in advance, to consider a wide range of possibilities and mitigate for them, to assess the potential risk of edge cases and determine if they need mitigating actions, and to design governance structures that are forward looking and flexible. To advocate for a case by case break/fix as it happens approach is exactly what we should not be doing and to do so would show how little we understand about the structures we are trying to create. Lets not go down that path.

-James

From: <accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com<mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>>
Date: Sunday 22 November 2015 at 9:38 p.m.
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Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Addressing future scenarios in the present


Hello,

Just thought I should share this interesting situation in one of the states in my country:

There was a governorship election yesterday and the electoral commission declared the result inconclusive, due to the difference in the votes of the 2 top candidates. The leading candidate died after announcement of the election status. There then arise a question about what the next action could be:

- The constitution has a provision for installing the deputy governor if the governor elect dies, but in this case there is no governor elect yet.

- The electoral act has a provision to replace a candidate who dies before the election, but in this case election has been conducted just that it's inconclusive and electoral body is yet to announce next step of action.

The legislative arm of government cannot update constitution overnight to address this scenario neither can such be done on the electoral act. It remains a puzzle that has been left in the hands of the judicial system of the country to address.

Why are my saying all these, it's to emphasis that one may not be able to capture all the possible scenarios until they are experienced and when they are experienced, the board and community  should be ready to address them on case basis, including updating the governing document if applicable. It is my hope that we face this realistically going forward.

Thanks for reading the short story,(apologies in advance if this annoys anyone) do have a wonderful week ahead.

Regards

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Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
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