Hi,

Well then I am confused.  Who is it that decided that the elections would be held before the change in Council as opposed to after the change over to the new Council.  I apologize for thinking it was intentional as opposed to accidental.  This is, btw, not in keeping with any prior council election that I know of.  That is, I do not know of any case where the old GNSO Council elected the chair for the following year's GNSO council, in fact I know of no organization at all where this happens.  

Personally I think this is a bad idea and sets bad precedent and I doubt that GCOT recommended having the old council elect the new council's chair. 

But in terms of the NCSG, I think it was just a quest for understanding  and I guess we just need to understand that it just happened accidentally and wasn't planned that way.

Thanks for responding.

a.


On 17 Nov 2010, at 14:42, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> Avri,
> 
> Neither myself as chair or the Council has made any decision regarding
> how the chair is elected except to follow the procedures that are in
> place and to recommend that the procedures be revisited by the OSC and
> GCOT to deal with issues like you raise.
> 
> Chuck
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Avri Doria [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:51 AM
>> To: Gomes, Chuck
>> Cc: NCSG Members List
>> Subject: Election of new chair
>> 
>> Dear Chuck,
>> 
>> I am wondering whether you and the GNSO council have an explanation
> for
>> why the election of the chair for the post Cartagena council is being
>> selected by the current council.
>> 
>> I know that your term ends in Cartagena, but you have 2 very capable
> v-
>> chairs that could lead during the brief period between the end of the
>> Cartagena meeting and the announcement of election results, especially
>> if the email ballot started soon after the Cartagena meeting ended.  I
>> mean one of them seems likely to become the chair anyway, so having
> the
>> two of them share the chair for a brief period does not seem all that
>> problematic.
>> 
>> I do not know that it would change anything, but it would allow the
>> incoming council members to have a stake in the selection of the chair
>> they will have to work with for the next year.  The issue came up in
>> our last NCSG Policy meeting and no one was able to give an adequate
>> explanation of the council's current decision, so I am asking whether
>> there is one.
>> 
>> Note: we have reelected our same two council members, Bill and Mary,
> to
>> another term, so this is not an issue that the NCSG has a stake in,
>> just one we don't understand.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> a.
> 
>