[council] Fwd: GA
Avri Doria
avri at psg.com
Mon Aug 20 15:46:49 UTC 2007
Hi,
Thank you for the clarification.
From my perspective, while there is not a General Assembly, there is
a GA List, and that list seems to be trying to organize itself and
become useful contributors. It is that, specifically list operations
for a better behaved list, which I am recommending we support. I am
not making any recommendations or statements concerning the re-
introduction of a General Assembly and am explicitly trying to say
that we have no involvement in the internal organization of the GA list.
I apologize if I was sufficiently clear on this.
a.
On 20 aug 2007, at 11.23, Ross Rader wrote:
> Avri -
>
> One small point of clarification - there is no General Assembly
> (GA) of the GNSO. There is only a mailing list that was used by the
> former GA of the DNSO which was not shut down when the DNSO was
> reformed into the GNSO (at which time the General Assembly was
> eliminated/not carried forward).
>
> Procedurally speaking, there cannot be a request from the GA
> because it does not exist. If there is a case to be made to
> recreate the former GA as part of the GNSO, it should be made as
> part of the GNSO reform discussion and not considered in isolation.
>
> Avri Doria wrote:
>> Hi,
>> As far as I can tell, we all received a copy of this email from
>> the GA chair. Even so, given the council's responsibility for the
>> GA list, I wanted to send it to the list so that it would be
>> included in our archives.
>> As an initial approach, I would like to do the following with
>> regard to the GA charter (found at http://www.geolang.com/
>> draftGAListRules5.htm):
>> - Acknowledge the GA request for consideration of their charter.
>> - Given the council's by-law responsibilities for the moderation
>> of the GA list, encourage them in taking steps to bring order and
>> discipline to the GA list and indicate that they have the
>> council's support in implementing the mailing list rules indicated
>> in Section 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 with the following exception in
>> section 2:
>>> The Announce list is available for official pronouncements only.
>>> Emanating from the Secretariat of the NC and/or the Chair of the GA
>>>
>> In this case, the GA-announce list is solely for the use of the
>> GNSO Secretariat for notifying the GA subscribers of GNSO and
>> other ICANN informational items. I do not recommend we make any
>> change at this time in this list's status.
>> - With regard to the organizational sections of the charter,
>> specifically 6, 8, and 9, indicate that the GA is free to
>> determine its own organizational structure, with the following
>> exceptions in section 8 on elections:
>>> An election is usually held near the end of the term of office
>>> for the chair of the General Assembly. The exact time is decided
>>> by the outgoing Chair and the Chair of the GNSO.
>>> Nominees for the Chair are sent to an email address provided by
>>> the Secretariat.
>> - With regards to the exceptions listed above, as I read them,
>> they require activity by the council, its chair and secretariat
>> that are not specifically mandated by the by-laws. Since the by-
>> laws governing the GNSO and its governance structure are currently
>> under review by the ICANN Board and its Governance WG, I recommend
>> that we postpone any discussion of these issues until after the
>> GSNO council's new governance situation is settled and understood.
>> I should also point out that there was an earlier request that the
>> GNSO council create another public discussion list, similar to the
>> GA list but limited to members of existing GNSO constituencies.
>> The request was independently submitted by a member of one GNSO
>> constituency, but was not backed up by that constituency at that
>> time, so I did not take it further. I am bringing it up now for
>> completeness sake.
>> I suggest that we try and resolve the issue of my response to the
>> GA request over the email list. If there is need I will list this
>> item under AOB in the next agenda, but if there are no objections
>> to the response I suggest or to a modification of the response
>> that we can agree to on the list, perhaps I can go ahead with a
>> response without the need for a specific agenda item.
>> Thanks
>> a.
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> From: Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204 at yahoo.com>
>>> Date: 18 augusti 2007 12.23.50 EDT
>>> To: avri at psg.com
>>> Subject: GA
>>>
>>> Dear Councilors,
>>>
>>> This letter is a formal request from the GNSO General Assembly
>>> for recognition of our List Rules and for a directive that we be
>>> allowed to interface with those in control of the List in order
>>> to implement our new rules.
>>>
>>> Our GA list will be more effective in contributing to the
>>> business of the GNSO if we are allowed a modicum of self
>>> governance. Within the Rules we have provided for reasonable self
>>> organization and a disciplinary regimen.
>>>
>>> We are mindful of the differences which from time to time may
>>> exist between the GA and the existing structural members of
>>> ICANN. It is by establishing procedures and restraints that we
>>> hope to change those differences into contributions.
>>>
>>> Please earnestly consider this request.
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>> Eric Hugh Dierker
>>> GA Chair
>>>
>>> http://www.geolang.com/draftGAListRules5.htm
>>> or
>>> http://www.geolang.com/draftGAListRules5.txt
>>>
>>>
>>> Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ross Rader
> Director, Retail Services
> Tucows Inc.
>
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