<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">With respect to the procedural irregularities which are referenced below, may I strongly advise the region that it would be very advisable to formally adopt rules of procedure to govern conduct of discussion as one of the first, if not the first, order of business after the elections process is concluded. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is apparent that there are a number of community members who are not familiar with good practice standards of decision-making. The community will need to come to a shared understanding of the basics of how to reach agreement in order to be seen as operating in a transparent and legitimate, rules-based way, and for the decisions that are reached to be seen to be legitimate outcomes of a process that is itself legitimate. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>In that connection I refer the community to the draft Rules of Procedure prepared for the entire At-Large community, available from <A href="https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?rules_of_procedure">https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?rules_of_procedure</A> - in French, English and Spanish.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 11 May 2007, at 16:12, Roberto Gaetano wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">I hope that all the discussions going on now will remain as a record for the time in which the ALAC Review will take place.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">It will be interesting to know, for the reviewers, how much time is spent on substantial discussions, and how much time on procedural matters.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">In particular, how much time is spent in revisiting former consensus decisions taken only few months earlier.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">From the attitude point of view, what is appalling, looking from the outside, is how a couple of people have inherited the Jeff William syndrome, i.e. the belief that when they speak, that means that this is the consensus position, and just because the majority does not have neither time nor envy to reply to each and every message, that becomes the consensus, overriding previous decisions.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">Last but not least, I do not take sides on what form of vote will be more democratic, I just only note that there is one fundamentally undemocratic approach, which is to change the rules of an election on the day before the elections, when nominations are already closed (based on the previous rules). Whether this is on the voting mechanism for ALAC reps, or on the number of seats for the Board.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">The only good thing is that, as I hoped, all ALSes have signed, making the whole fandango raised on the MoU a complete loss of time.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">Incidentally, I will write to a trusted third party my forecast on the result, and that can be compared at the end with what really happened. It is a bit funny, because I have the impression that there's a lot of noise for an election that, for the ALAC seats, has the result already known, if you just sit down and think.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007">Roberto</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="237150115-11052007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">EURO-Discuss mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org">EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.icann.org">http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.icann.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>