[members-discuss] Discuss Charging Scheme 2010

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> At 01:41 PM 19-06-09 +0100, Rob Evans wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > voting through the lir portal, great idea.
>> > (first on the agenda, the correction of 2007-01)..
>>
>> Could you clarify what you want electronic voting for?
>>
>> The policy development process?  Which doesn't have any voting at the
>> moment, it is a consensus-based approach on open mailing lists -- please
>> read the link that Andy Davidson sent around earlier for more
>> information.
>>
>> Or the General Meeting where decisions are made relating to the RIPE
>> NCC?  (Voting on the RIPE NCC executive board, accepting the charging
>> scheme and budget, etc.)
> 
> Budgets, charging schemes, etc.  If a vote is called for at an AGM and
> 50 out of 5000 people vote, there should be the ability to submit ones
> vote via the LIR Portal as well.  It is called democracy.

Well. It goes even further.

At the AGM it was raised, if this should be done via a postal voting
system, the LIRportal or an external open source system.

And to be honest, the LIRportal is in control of the NCC.

I made it very clear, that I'd prefer

a) if we spend money/ressources on something to let anybody benefit from
that, ergo send it towards and existing open source system,

b) i'd like to be able to check myself, that the underlying voting
system actually does, what it says on the tin.

c) maybe we don't want to give the NCC any chance (we know they don't do
it, but why tempt them), with tampering with the way the system counts
the votes.

The external open source system, maybe even handled by an external
entity would cover all those 3 points.

Now, the vote on that hasn't been done yet, but there was some clear
opinions on where we go, because I didn't stand alone in the room with
that opinion.

As for budgets, charging schemes, etc., yes, that's up for
vote/discussion at the AGM. Correct.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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