[CCWG-ACCT] Proposal for a Community Veto Process on Key Board Decisions via Bylaws Amendment

[Kavouss Arasteh]

Dear All,
I have read all of your good and valuable suggestions
There are good arguments and complementary arguments and sometime
cautionary ones for both issues: Removal of a Board Mmember and reactying
or acting on the oiccasions that they Veto a community decisions and the
procedure on how the Veto is made.
Would it be possible the either the chair of the WP or one of you
distinguished colleagues that initiated the discussion or any volunteer,
take the coordination action to merge and or integrate the thrusts of the
proposal for further actions
Regards.
Kavouss

2015-02-06 21:53 GMT+01:00 Carrie Devorah <carriedev at gmail.com>:

> Question- coincidental to this conversation I am looking at historical
> ICANN papers. ICANN is, as Steve told me, adressing policy. Then explain to
> me please why ICANN is in the business of auctioning ccgTLDs and, becoming
> a profitable business, 2012 assets were $500,000,000 (give or take a few
> million)
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>  I tend to agree with much of what Avri said.
>>
>> Board members are selected by SOs and At-Large  to represent them, but
>> presumably because there is a belief that the prospective Board member
>> shares a common set of values with the selecting organization. If the org
>> comes to the beleif that they were mistaken, there is no doubt in my mind
>> that they should be able to undo the selection. It will rarely if ever be
>> used, but the possibility should ensure that Board members stay more in
>> touch with the organization that selected them than is not sometimes the
>> case. The removal needs to be unilateral and without a public rationale or
>> opportunity for appeal.
>>
>> Removal of one or more Board members by the overall community is a more
>> difficult one. It should certainly require a strong consensus. Removal of
>> all of the Board is frought with all sorts of problems not the least of
>> which who acts as the interim Board until a new one is selected.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> At 05/02/2015 03:33 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>>
>> On 04-Feb-15 19:07, Roelof Meijer wrote:
>>
>> Is the "the ability of the community to recall recalcitrant board
>> members” also subject to the condition of the board not being unanimously
>> or in super majority against such a recall? If it is, I think it will be
>> useless.
>>
>>
>> I would assume that removing a single board members would require some
>> process by those who (s)elected the Board member and could be for any
>> reason those (s)electors decided warranted such removal.
>>
>> It could, for example, be because the Board member never consulted with
>> those who (s)elected them.  It could be becasue they weren't doing their
>> job.  It could be because they were vile, vicious and vindictive.  I think
>> the commuity that (s)elects a Board member should be able to remove them as
>> they decide it is needed.  If their idea of what is good for ICANN is
>> radically diffferent from the (s)electors then they should be removed.  We
>> would need to develop processes within each f the ACSO that (s)elect, and
>> would need to develop a nomcom removal process.
>>
>> As for removal of the chair or of the entire Board, that is a different
>> issue, and I am not sure that I support the removal of the entire board,
>> though removal of the chair by a community wide consensus might make sense.
>>
>> avri
>>
>>
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