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RE: [atlarge-discuss] FW: [atlarge-panel] 006 Vote to choose organization name

At 04:27 p.m. 13/09/2002 -0400, Joanna Lane wrote:


Joop wrote:
Now I know what the fundamental disconnect is.
> An appointment needs acceptance.
> I do not accept to be "Staff".  I like to keep my full membership rights.

This is a huge problem Joop. What you are saying is that you are entitled to
use your position as webmaster to further your partisan views. No.

That is what you try to put in my mouth.


Nobody is trying to take away membership rights. You are free to vote and
argue your conscience, but it is a clear abuse of power to allow words to
spill over into actions taken as webmaster.

Which action have I taken as webmaster can be called abuse of power?


By my reading, you are now blocking this vote as a way to ensure your
personal choice wins, Icannatlarge.
This is where you are spreading falsehood, Joanna. Enough of this. Your reading is wrong and you are doing damage to yourself by persisting in it.
I am not blocking anything. I have no personal interest in icannatlarge.com except in that I think that it may be to the benefit of this community not to make changes in the domain at this time.

I have facilitated a mailing list votes@icannatlarge.com that is ready to receive your votes, aliasing to Joanna Lane, Bruce and Walter Schmidt as Polling officers.
I have updated the announce list news@icannatlarge.com to now include all members and have given you the password to post to it.


That is *all* the service you need from the webmaster.
Two days of accusation and insinuation have already passed while you could have sent the ballot message right then when I told you that votes@icannatlarge.com was active and new@icannatlarge.com was ready for your message.

Or is it that you don't want to take responsibility for sending out that ballot message?

I am not against this vote at all. Apart from the unseemly hurry, when the debate on our Mission and Purpose is not yet closed, I favour it. I just do not want to take responsibility for sending a ballot message to which I have not seen at least 7 signatures attached.



The only good that can come from this acerbic exchange, is that it helps defining the rights and duties of future webmasters and Supervisory Panel Chairs.

I have had a stab at this before and instead of seeing this self-created stand-off theatre as a "huge problem" I propose here a solution, to be inserted (when approved) in our Bylaws.

Webmaster responsibilities.

1. The webmaster is responsible for the technical functioning of the website in all respects.
2. The webmaster is responsible for the databases built by the membership. He will guard the members' privacy, unless compelled to share data with their elected Panel when so instructed by majority vote.
He will provide regular data backup to ICANN's At Large elected directors, to be held by them in escrow, to ensure the data's survival. If ICANN has no longer At Large elected directors, the backup will be sent to an elected Trustee.
3. The webmaster is responsible to keep the website up-to-date.
4. the webmaster keeps a public record of the time he spends on webmaster duties.

Discretion of Webmaster

5. the webmaster may update non controversial text ,design or code on his own initiative
6. the webmaster may appoint a Forum Administrator to manage all aspects of the website community Forum.
(the Panel may of course appoint one too)

limitation of webmaster discretion

7. the webmaster must refrain from implementing any change or update that may be controversial among the membership and must at all time first seek Panel majority approval for such changes.

8. the webmaster will immediately upon being ordered to do so by formal majority of the Supervisory Panel:
a. remove text or design elements
b. change text, links or make other simple changes.



I submit these rules to the Panel for their approval.


<snip>

By not cooperating and distributing this ballot, you are suppressing the
voice of the people we serve. Let's allow them to speak for themselves, and
not be lead by a few individuals who have spent a lifetime telling us what
to think, telling us what is right, justifying putting roadblocks in the way
on the basis that we must be confused or ignorant, that we do not know what
we're doing.

They can speak as soon as you send the ballot.


I think our membership is fed up with being told what to think and I want to
hear what they think. That's all this ballot is about, and if you are
unwilling to even help us do something as simple as that, then I can only
assume you have shifted to the "tell them what to think" camp, which for me
is an ICANN, top down approach.
I agree that if you have panel approval for your text, the ballot should be sent a.s.a.p. By you or by your appointed Polling Officer.

Just send the ballot out please.

On a practical note, if I send it through news@icannatlarge.com, it's not
going to reach the full membership and I really don't have time to add all
998 members to my address box manually. I assume you already have these
compiled on a list?
You have not heard me, Joanna. This time it *will* reach the full membership. I sent you an email message to that effect and I have repeated it here.

Just send out the ballot please.

When the vote is in, perhaps we can turn back to discussing our
Mission and Purpose.




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