[At-Large] Proposal: Rotating Chair for ALAC

[Michael Maranda]

Well said!

On 7/9/07, Bret Fausett <bfausett at internet.law.pro> wrote:
>
> My proposal didn't envision elections. Only three people are
> involved, so public campaigning, lobbying, and voting won't happen.
> If three reasonable people of good will can't agree, then they can go
> into a closet and do rock-paper-scissors until a winner emerges. Or
> they can share the Chair.
>
> Personally, I don't agree that the ALAC needs a single face, a single
> voice, a single person as a point of contact. Yes, we probably need a
> single email address -- ALAC-Chair at icann.org or something -- but the
> recipients of that email address should be the rotating Executive
> Committee, not one person. I think we will benefit, both functionally
> and in the eyes of the community, from being an organization with
> many voices, many faces, and both a real and perceived ability to
> work together in a relatively flat organizational structure that
> doesn't elevate any one person above the others.
>
>                Bret
>
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
>
> > With respect to this proposal, perhaps as the staff I could comment
> > on the idea from the perspective of administrative overhead, and also
> > perception outside the community:
> >
> > Firstly, if the chair changes that often, you will have to have some
> > way to select between the three regional representatives where more
> > than one of them is willing to serve. This means more elections.
> > Elections cause a fair amount of administrative overhead, and
> > generally involve campaigning, lobbying others for votes, etc. This
> > takes away time from policy discussions and other substantive work.
> >
> > Secondly, as everyone is well aware, after spending years in
> > procedural discussions and forming RALOs, those stakeholders outside
> > of At-Large are very much looking to see how much policy work the
> > community does. Having just finished forming all the structures, do
> > you think that those outside of At-Large will see it as a good sign
> > that you are turning immediately to desiging more administrative
> > processes which involve elections?
>
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