Re: [atlarge-discuss] offlist: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Provisional Membership Committee (copy to all members)

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Good afternoon, Joey:

The grace period expires one week after the close of the election.

The seven day period was established on Sunday June 1st. 2003

Ron Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joey Borda **star*walker**" <starwalker@gay.com>
To: "Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>; "Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>
Cc: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] offlist: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Provisional
Membership Committee (copy to all members)


> At 11:55 AM 6/6/2003 -0400, Joanna Lane (and Ron Sherwood previously)
wrote:
>
> >Please be advised that grace period expires on Sunday June 8th at
> >00:00Zulu (Midnight Saturday GMT)
>
> I am assuming that the grace period expiration date will be conformed to
> one week from the date of the actual transmittal of the FINAL letter. Is
> that so?
>
> Otherwise I find the letter and Joanna's amendment(s) and suggestions very
> much in order.
>
> /s/ Joey
>
> Friday, June 06, 2003 * 12:24 PM EDT USA
>
> mailto:starwalker@gay.com
> mailto:starwalker@starwalker.org
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>
> Entire original post======================================
>
> At 11:55 AM 6/6/2003 -0400, Joanna Lane wrote:
> >Ron,
> >Good job, but I have taken the liberty of doing an edit of your letter,
to
> >be a little more specific about what is being asked of them......
> >
> >First, it doesn't need to be signed by a Chairperson, neither do we have
> >one, so best just to sign it "from the Provisional ID Verification
> >Committee" or similar and list all names and email addresses, so there is
no
> >excuse for not contacting any one of us.
> >
> >Sorry about the wrap thing if I messed it up.
> >Joanna
> >
> >_____________________________________________________
> >
> >"Dear  X,
> >
> >Your ranking in the recent ICANNAtLarge Panel Elections placed you in the
> >top 11. In order to confirm whether on not you will be taking up your
place
> >with immediate effect, and to introduce yourself to the membership, would
> >you please provide:-
> >
> >1) Simple proof of your existence as the person you represent yourself to
> >be. You may submit copies of official documents, such as driving license
and
> >bank statement, in private to any one of a group of volunteers acting as
a
> >Provision ID Verification Committee, whose names and contact details
appear
> >below. These volunteers will not share your information outside the
> >committee. In addition, would you please make a $1 electronic payment at
> >www.Paypal.com , made payable to sotiris@hermesnetwork.com, which $ will
be
> >returned to you promptly. If you are unable to comply with these
requests,
> >please contact a member of the ID Verification Committee to discuss
> >alternative procedures to verify your identity that may be acceptable.
> >
> >2) Accept your Panel seat by sending a note to the AtLarge discuss list
to
> >confirm your willingness to serve on the Panel for its duration (or for a
> >lesser duration if that is your preference).
> >
> >3) Introduce yourself to the membership by sending a copy of your CV/
Resume
> >to the AtLarge discuss list, or the URL where this is posted online.
> >
> >A number of candidates are unknown to the
> >membership, and because of the possibility of pseudo
> >personas standing for election in an on-line voting
> >process, it is essential that candidates who receive sufficient
> >votes to be elected Panelists, satisfy minimum criteria to verify their
> >identity within a reasonable period of time after the election finishes.
> >On this occasion, the grace period is seven days, or the candidate
forfeits
> >their
> >right to be seated on the Panel, and their place is offered to the
candidate
> >with the next highest number of votes.
> >
> >Please be advised that grace period expires on Sunday June 8th at
> >00:00Zulu (Midnight Saturday GMT)
> >
> >We look forward to your early response.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >for and on behalf of the ICANN@Large Verification Committee
> >
> >(list all members with email addresses)
> >
> >___________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ron Sherwood [mailto:sherwood@islands.vi]
> > > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:46 AM
> > > To: Daniel R. Tobias; atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> > > Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Provisional Membership Committee (copy
to
> > > all members)
> > >
> > >
> > > Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> > >
> > > > Your message is malformed; its line length doesn't meet the standard
> > > > of RFC 2822.  See this screenshot:
> > >
> > > For those members who have an email client that
> > > does not handle word wrap, I resend the message:
> > >
> > > Dear Provisional Membership Committee volunteers:
> > >
> > > I have been asked to prepare a draft letter to be sent
> > > to all Panelists-elect.
> > >
> > > Since the last day of the 7 day grace period starts at
> > > 00:00Zulu Saturday, and since that is 8:00pm Atlantic
> > > time today, I propose that the committee elect their
> > > chairman at that time and immediately send this letter
> > > out to all Panel-elect members.
> > >
> > > Draft letter below for your approval
> > >
> > > Regards, Ron Sherwood
> > >
> > > ----------Draft Letter----------
> > >
> > > Dear Candidate:
> > >
> > > You offered to serve as an officer of the Panel of
> > > representatives to perform certain bootstrap tasks on
> > > behalf of the 900+ registered members of the
> > > ICANN@Large Internet users group.  In the election
> > > process, you received sufficient votes to be seated as
> > > a member of the Panel.
> > >
> > > Because a number of candidates are unknown to the
> > > membership, and because of the possibility of pseudo
> > > personas standing for election in an on-line voting
> > > process, it was determined that the elected Panelists
> > > should be provided with a grace period of seven days
> > > to fulfill three simple requirements, or to automatically
> > > disqualify themselves from the right to take office.
> > > That grace period expires on Sunday June 8th at
> > > 00:00Zulu (Midnight Saturday GMT)
> > >
> > > The three requirements are:
> > >
> > > 1) to provide to the membership discuss list, or to a
> > > verification committee, simple proof of your existence
> > > as the person you represented yourself to be as a
> > > candidate. The method was left to you, but several
> > > options were offered.
> > >
> > > 2) to confirm your willingness to serve on the Panel for
> > > its duration (or for a lesser duration if that is your will).
> > >
> > > 3) to introduce yourself to the membership by posting
> > > to the atLarge-discuss list.
> > >
> > > A number of members have volunteered to act as the
> > > Verification Committee and will spend the 24 hours
> > > prior to the expiration of the grace period in an
> > > attempt to contact all Panel members-elect to verify
> > > their compliance with the three above requirements.
> > > Please accept this message as our notice of that
> > > contact attempt.  If you have not yet met the above
> > > requirements please do so immediately.
> > >
> > > Your early response is requested.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > for the ICANN@Large Verification Committee
> > >
> > > ?????????, Chairperson
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>


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