Greetings members,
Here at
There were a couple of issues or decisions that were
controversial or just difficult to know what is best. We wanted to solicit your
opinion about that. Please give us your input on the items below
Two of the questions relate to electing GNSO Councilors. The
other is just a question about organizational structure
In the future we will need to elect 6 GNSO Councilors.
Voting method for GNSO Council representatives
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V1) Should each member give one vote to 6 candidates?
V2) Should we allow members to concentrate and distribute their
votes, e.g., assign all 6 votes to one candidate, or 3 votes to 2 candidates, or
2 votes to 3 candidates?
The concentrated vote method would increase the chances that
minorities with strong preferences would be represented on the Council. It
would, as a result, decrease the solidarity of the NCSG as a voting bloc and
reduce the need for Council candidates to try to represent the stakeholder
group as a whole. Most of the members meeting here favored Option 1 because
they wanted Council members to have a broader appeal, but at least one favored
the concentrated method. There are also some concerns about the procedural
complexity of concentrated voting.
Geographic representation
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There are 6 Council seats and 5 ICANN geographic regions. What
geographic representation rule do we follow?
Two different options were proposed:
G1) A simple rule that no region can have more than two (2)
council seats
G2) A rule that at least 4 regions must be represented in
the outcome.
I think there was agreement that the GNSO Council position
is important and very demanding, so no one should get elected to it solely
because of their regional origin; they should compete with candidates from
other regions on the basis of their qualifications and commitment to the job.
So that is why we did not just say that the Council seats should
Rule G1 would mean that you could have a minimum of three
regions represented on the Council (2 from each of 3 regions)
Rule G2 would mean that 4 regions would be represented, but
one region might have as many as 3 of the 6 seats
Executive Committee – Policy Committee Structure
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Here we are just asking for comment on organizational
structure.
We seemed to come to an agreement on:
An _Executive Committee_
that consists of:
The executive committee handled administrative tasks such as
membership reviews, fund allocations, meeting agendas, voting
A _Policy committee_
that consists of:
Elected GNSO Councilors
One representative from each constituency
The Policy Committee
What do you think of this structure?
Apologies for the length of this message, but we do need
your input on these issues