[members-discuss] Request to amend the RIPE NCC Articles of Association

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> wrote:
> On 25/06/14 13:23, Sander Steffann wrote:
>> Hi Nigel,
>>
>> Op 25 jun. 2014, om 13:02 heeft Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> het volgende geschreven:
>> Indeed. Discussing the results of the voting, congratulating new board members, thanking old board members etc has to be part of the meeting in my opinion. A voting window of 24 hours seems the most fair to everybody because 24 hours will include one normal full working day for everybody.
>>
>>
> In practice this will mean making the announcement at some time on
> Friday morning, which I don't think is too much of an issue, especially
> as we now make the announcement generally rather than just to members.
> We could either make it first thing (before the plenary starts) or
> during the morning break. The latter would seem to be most sensible
> (assuming the PC is happy with this).
>
> All the best

Sounds like a good solution. To sum it all up as I see it:

- 24hours voting window as a max. See no real need for 2-3days, if you
need that much time you should delegate the voting.

- Open voting as today. It would be unwise to open voting before
discussions in General Meeting (GM) are done so I'm strongly against
that. Might be arriving new information that change the entire game?

- Announce result sometime during the RIPE meeting, if that mean we
have to move GM to an earlier day, so be it.

- Proxy voting can, probably will, and probably already have been
"missused" to get your (for any definition of you) candidate voted in.
However there are real use cases for proxy voting so we need to
support it somehow. I like the suggestion that LIRs have an option to
delegate their voting rights to someone else online.

- Paper voting is extra work if you compare it to full electronic
voting, however we have this privacy vs anonymity issue. It is not an
easy answer to that.
What I suggest - all that register for GM and voting on RIPE70 should
by default get the online vote options selected. If they want to vote
using paper they have to select it themself.

- Accountability should be improved, but first I think we need to
better understand the real problem. Is it lack of trust, or just need
to double check the result?



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