[EURO-Discuss] PROPOSED TELECONFERENCE

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wzb.eu
Thu May 3 14:13:45 EDT 2007


I was asking for abstaining from binding decisions.

 From Nicks's agenda:

"If nobody else will propose an agenda, what I would suggest as a draft is:

[...]

We would then bring the results of these items back to the list, not
for review, but as decisions."

jeanette

Rudi Vansnick wrote:
> As far as I can read in the agenda proposed by Nick, there is no voting 
> tomorrow.
> There for I see no reason for further delay. We have already been 
> discussing items and topics which were very clear and had enough 
> timespan being read by everyone considering the EURALO kick-off in 
> priority of some other work.
> 
> I had also to organise myself in order to participate in what I consider 
> being an important item in the agenda of *my daily work for the Internet 
> community, listening to all and any Internet individual user.*
> 
> rudi
> 
> Jeanette Hofmann schreef:
>> Hi,
>> if it is indeed true that many ALs cannot participate tomorrow, it would 
>> be good to restrain from taking binding decisions.
>>
>> As the decisions taken in Lisbon have shown, it can somewhat poison the 
>> atmosphere if those physically present make decisions that don't reflect 
>> the preferences of those absent. For this very reason, IETF working 
>> groups don't vote in physical meetings or teleconferences, they use 
>> mailing lists for polls and the like to ensure that all interested 
>> parties have a chance to participate.
>>
>> jeanette
>>
>>
>> Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
>>   
>>> >From the email replies sent to the list, this time and date were the
>>> best - more people could do this time and date than any of the others
>>> - which is why we set it that way.
>>>
>>> If nobody else will propose an agenda, what I would suggest as a draft is:
>>>
>>> 1) Discuss and agree the list of candidates - including whether or not
>>> to include candidates who were proposed after the deadline.
>>>
>>> 2) Discuss and agree the total number of board seats for this election cycle.
>>>
>>> 3) Discuss and agree the length of the voting, the start date, and the
>>> provisional list of voters and the number of days for ALSes not on the
>>> call to provide their authorised voter.
>>>
>>> We would then bring the results of these items back to the list, not
>>> for review, but as decisions.
>>>
>>> I will put this up on the Wiki as the *DRAFT* agenda which all ALSes
>>> may then edit or extend - so we have something to start from.
>>>
>>> On 03/05/07, Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg at web.de> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> All,
>>>> concerning the tel conf tomorrow: Many people said they cannot take part (myself offered a different time, one and a half hours earlier). Rudi and myself asked what it is about, as no one proposed an agenda yet. I proposed to discuss all issues online. I guess, the best is, that those who actually have the chance in taking part come up with a proposal for procedure which will be presented to all of us online.
>>>> best
>>>> annette
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rudi Vansnick schrieb:
>>>>       
>>>>> This fits for me ... if at least we will have a clear agenda and no
>>>>> discussions about what is NOT written/signed in MoU and Bylaws.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rudi Vansnick
>>>>> Chair ISOC Belgium
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>     
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