[NA-Discuss] Draft NARALO Operating Procedures

Houle Louis Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org
Fri Aug 9 23:34:47 UTC 2013


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Louis Houle
Président
La Société Internet du Québec (ISOC Québec)
Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org

Le 2013-08-08 16:03, Alan Greenberg a écrit :
> I can live with it with or without the change (although I would keep 
> the "normally" I added. The change only allows the Chair to bypass the 
> process of trying to reach consensus...
>
> At 08/08/2013 01:16 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> Actually, in almost all of these cases there were multiple people 
>> considering the positions. In the conversation leading to consensus, 
>> some dropped out to enable a single consensus candidate.
>>
>> Where no such consensus was possible between the people considering 
>> running and other NARALO members, there was a secret vote.
>>
>> I still don't think this point needs changing.  Secret votes still 
>> happen, but the region is enabled (and indeed is encouraged) to use 
>> consensus where possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 August 2013 10:40, Alan Greenberg 
>> <<mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> Evan, were there ever cases where there were more candidates than 
>> slots and consensus was used?  Alan
>>
>>
>> At 08/08/2013 04:34 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>>> On 6 August 2013 10:15, Alan Greenberg 
>>> <<mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca > wrote:
>>> At 06/08/2013 08:31 AM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> #12 refers to ALAC members being chosen by a rough consensus 
>>> process.  This has never been done.  It has always been done by a 
>>> voting process.  The rough consensus wording should rather be used 
>>> for routine decisions.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am happy to make such a change if there is such a will.
>>>
>>>
>>> I wouldn't say never.
>>>
>>> NARALO's first two non-ALAC reps -- Robert and Beau - were chosen by 
>>> consensus, no vote was ever taken. I believe that Gareth's selection 
>>> as well as my first, were also done that way.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to keep the option so to allow for the flexibility.
>>>
>>> - Evan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Evan Leibovitch
>> Toronto Canada
>> Em: evan at telly dot org
>> Sk: evanleibovitch
>> Tw: el56
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