[NA-Discuss] NA-Discuss Digest, Vol 81, Issue 38

Murray McKercher murray_mckercher at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 29 01:40:43 UTC 2013


To add my two cents, I would suggest a second vote.
Option 1 as proposed by Evan
 
Regards,
Murray McKercher
NARALO Un-affiliated
 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  Building consensus on dealing with the election tie
      (RJ Glass)


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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: RJ Glass <jipshida2 at yahoo.com>
To: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson1 at GOV.NU.CA>,    Evan Leibovitch
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My opinion,

Vote on the alternatives.

Then revisit the issue to a formal change in the procedures.





>________________________________
> From: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson1 at GOV.NU.CA>
>To: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>; NARALO Discussion List <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org> 
>Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Building consensus on dealing with the election tie
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>
>Hi all,
>
>I would like to encourage all NARALO members to consider the options that Evan has posited below and respond to same.? Without consensus we cannot move forward on this issue.
>
>Thank you for your time on this!
>
>D
>
>Darlene A. Thompson
>CAP Administrator
>N-CAP/Department of Education
>P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
>Iqaluit, NU? X0A 0H0
>Phone:? (867) 975-5631
>Fax:? (867) 975-5610
>dthompson at gov.nu.ca
>________________________________________
>From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] on behalf of Evan Leibovitch [evan at telly.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:44 PM
>To: NARALO Discussion List
>Subject: [NA-Discuss] Building consensus on dealing with the election tie
>
>Hello all,
>
>I would like to suggest conducting a poll of NARALO members on the best way
>to deal with the tie for Secretariat resulting from the recently-held vote.
>While we need to revise our regulations regarding tie-breaking, we have an
>immediate need to resolve the current situation before the next ICANN
>meeting.
>
>Based on discussions I have heard to date, there are three paths to
>resolving this that have received some interest:
>
>?  1. Random tie-break
>?  The votes for ALSs and unaffiliated members is re-held, and the rules
>?  are modified. If another tie results, the tie is broken by a random method,
>?  supervised by at least two non-candidate members and/or At-Large staff.
>
>?  2. Tie-break by NA-Region ALAC members
>?  The votes for ALSs and unaffiliated members is re-held and he rules are
>?  modified. If another tie results, the tie is broken by a consensus achieved
>?  in private by the three ALAC members for North America (Alan, Eduardo and
>?  myself). Since there are three of us, no deadlock is allowed there
>
>?  3. Shared Secretariat
>?  No new election is held, and NARALO declares both Darlene and Glenn as
>?  co-Secretariats. While there is no precedent for this in NARALO, there is
>?  elsewhere in ICANN At-Large (both co-Chair and co-Secretariats have been
>?  done in other regions). The two would alternate travel to ICANN meetings
>?  (though both would naturally be at the Summit in London). In the case that
>?  any of the North American At-Large leadership cannot attend a meeting
>?  (Chair, travel-designated secretariat or ALAC member), the "non-travelling"
>?  secretariat member would automatically be designated to take that travel
>?  allocation. The rules may still be modified in case of future ties, but
>?  such action is not required immediately.
>
>So I am proposing that, in advance of the next NARALO call, we could do an
>informal poll of members (by Bigpulse or Doodle) to gain a sense of
>preferences between these options that may help guide a regional consensus
>on the August call.
>
>Is this a workable plan? Are the options above a valid representation of
>the ones discussed? (There are some other tie-break methods I have
>eliminated because of lack of support to date).
>
>I admit that when I started thinking about the tie I had not given any
>thought to the shared secretariat idea, but it has grown on me since. There
>is a significant amount of work to do, and it would be IMO a shame to force
>an all-or-nothing tiebreak on two people with both popular support and an
>eagerness to do the job.
>
>- Evan
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