[ALAC] Rules of Procedure - Draft for discussion at 26 March ALAC meeting

Eduardo Diaz eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 19:03:45 UTC 2013


Evan:

11.4.2  establishes quorum by indicating that  "...all members are deemed
to have been present". If a member does not want to participate in the
electronic vote, his/her vote will not have any balance in the final
result. For whatever reason people just do not vote sometimes.

-ed

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> Thanks for this work. I approve of the changes and believe they do improve
> clarity.
>
> I have one question (and apologize for the tardiness, I haven't really been
> contributing much):
>
> *11.4.2 For votes taken electronically or over a period of time, all ALAC
> Members  are deemed to have been present*
>
> I wonder if this may be problematic, in cases where an online vote
> (nominally now done by BigPulse) is held, but does not have many
> participants. If a BigPulse vote is held but does not have at least a
> quorum's worth of votes, does it still count?
>
> I would suggest choosing either of two paths:
>
> either
>
> *  11.4.2 For votes taken electronically or over a period of time, all ALAC
> Members  are deemed to have been present. Members who do not participate in
> the vote will be deemed to have abstained.
> *
>
> or
>
> *  11.4.2 For votes taken electronically or over a period of time, at least
> 50% of sitting ALAC members must record a vote in order for the result to
> be a valid decision*
>
>
> My preference is for the second choice but I can live with either.
>
> - Evan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 25 March 2013 03:52, Yaovi Atohoun <yaovito at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Dear Alan,
> >
> > Thank you again for the hard work.
> >
> >
> >   A/    comments/questions
> >
> > 1)  Does "recall" of an ALT member means that this member is no  more
> > member of ALT but remains an ALAC member?
> > 2)  For BCEC it is mentioned: A new BCEC will be convened for each Board
> > Seat Selection Process in 19.3.  Please don't we need such precision for
> > BMSPC too?
> >
> >
> > B/    Comment
> >
> > 1) I would prefer to see also included in 12.1.15   the removal of an
> ALAC
> > member.  I note that  21.2 is saying  "should a vote be necessary ......"
> >
> > C/ One thought
> >
> > Could we have a situation where a chair decide to become a regular ALT or
> > ALAC member in a situation where he thinks that he could not more carry
> the
> > work load?
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> > Yaovi
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >  De : Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
> > À : ALAC Working List <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> > Envoyé le : Lundi 25 mars 2013 6h23
> > Objet : [ALAC] Rules of Procedure - Draft for discussion at 26 March ALAC
> > meeting
> >
> > Attached please find the Draft Rules of Procedure for discussion at the
> 26
> > March 2013 ALAC meeting. Also attached is a redline version showing most
> of
> > the changes from the RoP discussed at the 19 March 2013 meeting.
> >
> > In addition to the changes detailed below, there are two sets of changes
> > what do not show in the redline:
> >
> > - A number of corrections to cross-references within the document.
> > - The movement of what was "10.3 Meeting Rules" to "10. Rules of the
> > ALAC". This change was not shown in the redline version since the move
> > caused all of the following paragraph numbers to be changed, making the
> > document quite confusing.
> >
> > Changes showing in the redline version:
> >
> > 1. Clarifying the status of individual members within At-large.
> > 1.2 clarification of rules used.
> > 2. Add definition of Super-majority and capitalize it where used within
> > the document.
> > 5.2 and other places: Define AAGM on first usage, and us it instead of
> AGM
> > within the document (some occurrences previously said AGM).
> > 5.6 Made reference to privileges associated only with the "ALAC Chair"
> > clearer.
> > 5.13 Replaced reference to Ombudsman with an alternative phrase taken
> from
> > the ICANN Bylaws.
> > 5.14 Added condition that only those who have at least one other ALAC
> > member supporting them can be named Chair.
> > 10.1 The section on rules was moved because it did not apply only to
> > meetings. The addition of "or activities" acknowledges this.
> > 11.4.2 Add a word that had inadvertently been omitted.
> > 11.4.4 Removal of a redundant phrase.
> > 11.2.3 Addition of rule to allow more stringent rules for motion
> adoption.
> >
> > The draft RoP can also be found at https://community.icann.org/x/VoYi.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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