[NCSG-EC] Gender and regional balance rules

[farzaneh badii]

Thanks.

Maryam, can you please upload this  operating procedures on elections on
wiki space under operating procedures section. Thanks

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:59 AM Tapani Tarvainen via NCSG-EC <
ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:

> Dear Farzaneh and EC members,
>
> As several people have asked me about this issue, perhaps it's useful
> if I summarize what happened.
>
> The confusion is of course my fault: EC decisions then were not
> recorded in any easily findable way. (One of the things I'd planned
> but failed to do was building archive/records pages for NCSG.) I did
> try to post important decisions to ncsg-discuss, however, and did so
> in this case as well.
>
> So, a brief history:
>
> After 2016 elections there was a lot of dicussion about election
> procedures in ncsg-discuss. Eventually a separate election-reform
> mailing list was formed to deal with them, with all ncsg members
> invited to join. Many things are still open, some left to a future
> charter change, but two issues were at least temporarily resolved.
>
> In particular, the gender and regional balance procedure was first
> posted to the election list on July 9, 2017 and then to EC list as
> part of EC meeting agenda. It was approved on EC call on 28 July and
> that decision, along with the procedure text, was sent to ncsg-discuss
> on August 1, and it (point 6) was used to resolve who who got 1-year
> term in council. Thus it's rather clear it was the rule that was in
> effect last year.
>
> For reference:
>
> The final announcement message in ncsg-discuss can be found here:
>
> https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1708&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&P=6532
>
> Transcript of the EC call on 28 July 2017 can be found here:
>
>
> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52891517/transcript_ncsgec_280717.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1501663417000&api=v2
>
> and chat here:
>
>
> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52891517/acchat_ncsgec_280717.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1501663432000&api=v2
>
> and election-reform list text here:
>
> https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-July/000022.html
>
> If you read those you'll see there wasn't actually much discussion
> even though there was a fair amount of time for it, but I assume
> that's simply because there's nothing particularly controversial about
> it: it mostly follows straight from the Charter, just clarifying some
> borderline cases and writing it out as a procedure that can be easily
> followed.
>
> Much more contentious was the None-of-the-Above issue, where I ended
> up calling ICANN legal for opinion and it was decided to follow it for
> time being but consider revising it in charter reform later.
> (It was basically to do ballots the way Robin did when she was chair
> in 2012, i.e., no explicit NotA but allow abstentions.)
>
> EC discussed it in the same call (see above linked transcript/chat)
> and election-reform list thread about it begins here:
>
> https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-July/000023.html
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
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Farzaneh
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