[For comment] Membership approval guidelines

Tue Sep 11 02:46:23 EEST 2018

Dear All,

I agree to not (never) vote twice, but I don’t have anything against being an org member and an individual member at the same time since sometimes one may wish to express a different view in either case.

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Best Regards
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(Ekue) Farell FOLLY
NCUC Rep. to the NCSG Policy Committee
linkedin.com/in/farellf 

> On 11 Sep 2018, at 07:48, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I thought about this Raoul again and read the previous threads looked at the past discussions, looked at the dual members. I think I am going to take the convenient approach and that is removing section 5 from the document. As you said you are the only opposition (I think I saw a plus 1 from Farrell as well to one of your comments) but also I don't see much discussion here in its support of the paragraph.  I guess you don't have an opposition to the rest of the document? can we approve that with the EC? People have been asking us for some guidelines for membership approval. Would be good to have them in place before Stephanie becomes chair. 
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>  I was after documenting NCSG processes so that leading and running it would be easier and less ad hoc and arbitrary.
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>  I have added Robin Gross here. During Robin's term as chair, the practice was that official reps could not be individual reps. This is just to reassure the members that I am not creating things out of thin air and want to impose them here before I leave!. But looking at some of Robin's communications I have the impression that she could also agree with you that when it comes to voting, dual members can just choose.I cc'd her here to correct me or see if she wants to weigh in. 
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> I have provided my reasons as to why I don't agree with your approach. I won't reiterate them. I still think I have a point. But a compromise here doesn't really harm NCSG. So I let it go.
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 8:45 AM Raoul Plommer <plommer at gmail.com <mailto:plommer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> It would be a all too convenient to silence pretty much the only vocal opposition you've had to this arbitrary guideline so I'm not going to recuse myself.
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> I've posited us an alternative solution that I think is far less bureaucratic and burdensome for our members and the EC. Until you can give me a better solution, I'm going to oppose these new guidelines.
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> -Raoul
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> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 14:15, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com <mailto:farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Not that exactly Raoul. Joly was not an individual member in the first place. But of course since he was a member for so long and doesn't seem to have changed the noncommercial nature of his activities in DNS it can be an easy fix. 
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> And we have not yet agreed on the rule not to have dual membership of official reps as individual members too so really we don't remove those for now, also applicable to you as you are still an individual member and an official rep.
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> if  there is enough agreement to do that among the EC members and the NCSG in the future, we can do so and put the rule down hopefully before the next elections.  since you are exactly in that situation I believe you have to recuse yourself and let others talk. But that's my personal opinion and will see what the rest of the EC and NCSG members think. 
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 6:26 AM Raoul Plommer <plommer at gmail.com <mailto:plommer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Joly's case is exactly what I mean by unnecessarily removing him as a member of the NCSG and having to apply for a membership again.
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> -Raoul
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> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 05:28, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com <mailto:farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> I think that is a good idea and we should add this somewhere either in this doc or somewhere that people who generally want to leave look for. If you want to be an individual member, you can apply again at this link: https://members.ncsg.is/membership_application <https://members.ncsg.is/membership_application>
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> Maryam had sent you a confirmation email that our record has been updated and Shilli is the primary rep. Seems like you have not been unsubscribed from the NCSG mailing list.  I wonder if you have been from NCUC since you sent an email to that list and resigned specifically from NCUC. That is another thing that procedurally we need to think but can be relatively easy.
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> For now, you can re-apply, and we can unsubscribe you until your membership is evaluated and announced. 
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> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 9:48 PM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com <mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> wrote:
> So what is the process for someone like me, who no longer represents an org? 
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> I recently formally announced my resignation to the list. I note that I am yet to be suspended / removed.
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> My suggestion would be that should happen, along there be some formal notice  - "Thank you for your service. Here's how to apply for individual membership.."
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> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 9:43 AM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com <mailto:farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> These guidelines say that individual members cannot be official representative of their orgs. We have to discuss the latter but we had many conversations before the election whether individuals can be official reps of their org as well and many agreed that no they should not be because they get voting rights. Are you against the  paragraph below? 
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> "5. Can I be an individual member as well as the representative member of my organization? 
> No, that is not possible. You need to decide whether you want to be the official representative of your organization at NCSG, or if you want to be an individual member and not represent your organization. "
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> We could clarify the last sentence that they can represent their organization as an additional member of the org if they wish. But they won't have voting rights. 
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> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:07 AM Raoul Plommer <plommer at gmail.com <mailto:plommer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I would not go for removing the dual membership. I see no harm in having the individual having a personal and an organisational identity in the NCSG. It will create many repeat applications from people that are already active in our community, when they change organisation or they want to give room for new organisational representatives. They would then have to apply again and that's just a waste of time for everyone. IF we need to change something about it, it would be to remove the voting right of the other identity, basically, whichever had less weight.
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> On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 01:22, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com <mailto:farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I have incorporated your comments as much as I could and sent this document to the Executive Committee for approval as well. 
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> This is to be reviewed by 14th of September.
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> Best 
> Farzaneh
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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 3:59 AM farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com <mailto:farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> This is a brief membership approval process and members application guideline. 
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> It is in the format of Q and A so that it's easier to read and follow. 
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> Please comment, this is not a complete document and we would like to complete it with your help: 
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> Membership approval guidelines 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vb4a7KnsDwqQlKCMkQx2y8DlykYkT2z3ODxMweGcxTE/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vb4a7KnsDwqQlKCMkQx2y8DlykYkT2z3ODxMweGcxTE/edit?usp=sharing>
> We will have until 21 August to finalize, add and remove from the document and then send to NCSG EC for comments.
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> Best 
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> Farzaneh
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