On 29 Aug 2008, at 03:41, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
This is looking pretty good, but I have a few remaining questions...
I'm hurtling back in time here - but Jeff's post offers a good
summary of our outstanding issues. Here's where I think we stand on them
Chairs are appointed by election. On the first day of August each
year the current chairs send the mailing list a request for
nominations. Each nomination must be accompanied by a proposer
and
seconder.
Who is eligible to nominate and/or second? Anyone? Any eligible
voter?
My intention was that any eligible voter may nominate or second.
Nominees need not be eligible. Eligible nominees may self-nominate.
If that's acceptable I'll work up some better language to clarify this.
I believe it is made clear elsewhere that a potential vote-taker
can be nominated, but then must not serve as a vote-taker.
Yes - potential vote-takers who are candidates must recuse themselves
from the vote-taking. I think that this is clear in the document as
it stands.
There is no discussion of what happens to fill a mid-term
vacancy. I'd propose something like the following:
- If the outgoing chair position becomes vacant on or after June 1,
but before October 1, then the office remains vacant until October 1,
at which point it is filled by the winner of the election.
- If the returning chair position becomes vacant on or after June 1,
but before the start of nominatons for the regular election, then
the office will remain vacant until October 1, at which point it is
filled by the candidate with the second-highest number of votes, as
in the bootstrapping process.
- If the returning chair position becomes vacant during the regular
election, then the office remains vacant during the election, and
the incoming chair starts a new election as soon as practical after
taking office.
- If either position becomes vacant at any other time, the remaining
chair runs an election as soon as is practical.
When the election process must be started at an unusual time due to
a mid-term vacancy or when bootstrapping the process, the normal
timeline is used, subject to the chair's discretion, except that
the new chair must take office two months after the call for
nominations. The eligibility cut-off remains the most recent July
1, as defined above.
That sounds fine to me - unless there are any objections I'll
incorporate this into the next version of the document.
Eligibility to vote is determined by those who are subscribed
to, or
have posted to, the standardisation group during the time
period from
the 1st of June to the 1st July of the appropriate year.
I can't remember if this was discussed, or if so, whether we
reached consensus.
It was discussed, IIRC.
Should the chairs post the list of eligible voters at some point
before elections begin?
Perhaps. At what point do you think they should do so? Do we need
measures to allow the electoral roll to be challenged, or is this all
getting too complicated?
The line above is missing a space.
Fixed in my copy.
I think I commented previously that I don't think there's any
reason to include the current chairs as registrars. The
bootstrapping section describes the initial registrars as being
composed of the current registrar plus a representative from each
of the current implementations; I think that's sufficient for
bootstrapping, and that the group can be self-determining after that.
I'm happy to remove the current chairs from that list, if others are
happy with that change?
Simon.
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