On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Adam Peake wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:37:20PM +0200, Dany Vandromme wrote:
> >> Vany's second proposal looks OK. In the three regions not represented in
> >> the NC, two must have as candidate their actual adcom member, who did run
> >> already for a NC position (rather than for only an AdCom position). The
> >> last constituency could have any candidate. Then the vote will be for the
> >> NC seat. The highest score wins. The other two highest scores (respecting
> >> the geographical diversity) will take (or keep) the two AdCom seats.
> >>
> >> In case of one of the two Adcom member (Vany or myself to-day), doesn't
> >> want to be candidate for the NC, he should be prepared to be kicked-off by
> >> someone from the same region getting more votes than him. That is fair
> >> since he has no mandate to prevent his region from having a NC rep!
> >
> >I have had private conversations with Vany about this. I am in
> >complete agreement with this formulation.
> >
>
> I'm back (don't moan...)
>
> I think you've come up with a good compromise. I can live with the above.
>
> I personally still feel that we should be placing a far higher priority on
> the Names Council than the AdCom, and that any vacancy should be among the
> three unrepresented regions in an open election. But, understand why
> there's disagreement with my position and so accept the proposal.
>
> Vany, Kent, Dany: is Option 2 <http://songbird.com/ncc/ncc-charternew.txt>
> how you see this represented in the Charter?
-
Option 2 is certainly my preferred one
-
>
> Do you think we might have less regional block voting if the vote was
> secret, candidates didn't see a list of who voted for them?
-
Advantages and disadvantages in both cases
Personally I wouldn't change my vote, secret or non secret
If choice is required, I would make it secret
-
>
> [cut]
>
> >
> >> 2-3- Political party membership
> >>
> >> That seems to me terribly difficult to verify whether a political party is
> >> acting or not as a gov or similar level. Unless knowing perfectly well the
> >> political situation of all countries, I bet we will never be able to
> >> distinguish what they are doing (with respect to the NCDNHC eligibility).
> >> We must therefore accept of reject all of them. My feeling would be to
> >> accept them (but on a personal point of view, I will have difficulty to
> >> support the application of some extreme party).
> >
> >I agree with all this, as well.
> >
>
> Personally, I would allow any political party (non-commercial, etc.) in
> with no restrictions (I'm wavering on it a little, but think that's how I
> feel most of the time.) But I thought there was enough feeling on the list
> and in Yokohama that we should adopt some restriction on political parties.
> So sprit of what I think is compromise, I'd go for the wording Milton
> proposed.
>
> "non-commercial" is so broad that we are always going top be faced with
> difficult applications, but I think we've done well to now. Note we have
> two political parties pending - under the rules we are discussing I think
> one is clearly eligible and one is very likely not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
> (For what it's worth, I spent the 7 days largely away from email - broken
> main laptop meant traveling with a very old 100Mhz machine, only a 14.4
> internal modem. Brought home just how much traffic the NCC list generates,
> and how silly most of the discussion we generate is.)
>
-
That's right!
Sub-lists may ease that...
-
>
> >--
> >Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
> >kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Dany VANDROMME | Directeur du GIP RENATER
Reseau National de Telecommunications
pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche
| ENSAM
Tel : +33 (0)1 53 94 20 30 | 151 Boulevard de l'Hopital
Fax : +33 (0)1 53 94 20 31 | 75013 Paris
E-mail: Dany.Vandromme@renater.fr | FRANCE
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Aug 29 2000 - 10:35:35 PDT