[NCSG-EC] [EC-NCSG] membership review procedures

Joan Kerr joankerr at fbsc.org
Tue Apr 25 03:46:12 EEST 2017


Hi Robin,

Thanks for your email.  I am in agreement with Tapani as well.  I don't
have any issues that I can foresee right now.

Thanks for all the work.

Joan

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Zalnieriute, Monika via NCSG-EC <
ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:

> Dear Robin,
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> This is great work!
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> I agree with Tapani that we can address the double voting in the election
> reform! The document looks great to me, I dont see any pressing issues
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> I also think that the provision for registering one's view in advance and
> long enough deadlines so people have time to react before going on
> vacation would be good options - we perhaps can discuss the details of the
> proposed time periods on the call? Shall we all make proposals?
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> Best wishes,
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> Monika
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> Kind regards,
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> Dr. Monika Zalnieriute
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> *From:* EC-NCSG <ec-ncsg-bounces at ipjustice.org> on behalf of Tapani
> Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 24, 2017 8:22 PM
> *To:* ec-ncsg at ipjustice.org
> *Subject:* Re: [EC-NCSG] membership review procedures
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> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 01:00:13PM -0700, Robin Gross (robin at ipjustice.org)
> wrote:
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> > If you haven’t already been following, please see the latest version on
> the operating procedures for membership review:
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> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JcHBNGsD1tYDdkzGbAxt7T6CbRFj-
> _SzTdK_oN7Q2jI/edit?usp=sharing
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> > A couple additional issues have come up with the draft since we last
> > spoke that I’d appreciate some feedback on.
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> > 1. How to handle people with dual membership as both an organization
> > and also as an individual in NCSG? Several have expressed discomfort
> > with this practice and the incentive it creates to game the system
> > by giving some people considerably more voting rights by claiming
> > dual memberships. One solution that has been proposed is allow those
> > people to have membership in both categories, but only allow the
> > person to vote in one of the membership categories (as an org or as
> > an individual). This seems like a reasonable solution to me. What do
> > others think?
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> I don't think we need to do anything about it in member removal
> procedures, unless you want to propose removing such members.
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> Instead I'd suggest leaving this issue to the election procedures
> discussion. Indeed it is included in the list of topics I sent
> to the election-reform list earlier (last item under (3)):
> https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-March/000001.html
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> If some of you aren't on the election-reform list yet, I'd suggest
> subscribing: https://lists.ncsg.is/mailman/listinfo/election-reform
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> I'll try to move forward with that soon, most issues should
> be resolved before next election, in effect before Johannesburg.
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> > 2. How to handle vacation / traveling time in the EC procedures for
> > membership review? We need some flexibility because we don’t want
> > deadlines happening when people are on vacation, but we also can’t
> > have unlimited postponements due to someone claiming travel. Any
> > ideas for how to handle deadlines and legitimate travel / vacation
> > need for flexibility?
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> Provision for registering one's view in advance and long enough
> deadlines so people have time to react before going on vacation.
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> Details need some thought though.
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> > Any other thoughts, comments, or recommendations on the draft are
> > most welcome. Other than the above two issues, I’d say we are ready
> > for membership feedback on the procedures.
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> I'll try to find time to read it through again thoroughly tomorrow,
> but I don't recall any pressing issues either.
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> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
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