[atlarge-discuss] RE: Provional Membership Committee

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Ah, here it is...I see you have included my name. Please remove it until I
have time to review. I will endorse it later or submit comments separately
as appropriate.
Thanks,
Joanna
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Ron Sherwood [mailto:sherwood@islands.vi]
  Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:18 PM
  To: Joop Teernstra
  Cc: Joey Borda **star*walker**; Kristen Doyle; Martha Gottlieb; Jeff Holt;
Joanna Lane; A/S Mauro D. Ríos; Micheal Sherrill; Ron Sherwood; Sotiris
Sotiropoulos; Jeff Williams; Abel Wisman; IAL
  Subject: Provional Membership Committee


  Dear Joop:

  I do not know if the Panel has elected a Chairperson or not. I therefore
send the following reort to you as the Panel member who earned the highest
number of votes in the recent @Large election.

  Please find below the report of the Provisional Membership Committee.

  This committee was not authorized by your Panel due to the fact that no
Panel was in place at the time members were asked to volunteer to look into
allegations that non-persons (unverified Internet persona) may have been
included as canndidates and elected to office.

  The committee udertook to use the 24 hour period from 00:00Zulu Saturday
to 00:00Zulu Sunday to look into these allegations and to attempt to
determine if the elected Panel members had complied with three conditions
requested by some members.  Those simple requirements were:

  1) that the elected Panel member be a real person and verified as such.
  2) that the elected Panel member declare her / his willingness to serve on
the Panel for a time certain.
  3) that the elected Panel member make hemself or herself known to the
membership they are elected to serve by way of an introductory post to the
atLarge-discuss list.

  Our report and addenda are copied below.

  Respectfully, Ron Sherwood

  We, the members of the Provisional Membership Committee wish to advise the
  elected Panel and our @Large membership that during the past 24 hours we
  have determined that:

  1) All elected Panel members are real persons and not artificial persona.
(With the exception of two members, which comments are set as addenda (i)
and (ii) below.)


  2) a number of elected Panelists have declined to respond to members
requests to
  introduce themselves to the membership on the atlarge-discuss list.

  3) one elected Panelist, Sebastian Klein, has declined to confirm a
willingness to work
  on the Panel for a time certain.

  4) one Panel member,Sebastian Klein, has not responded to any email
requests and has
  failed to post to any of this organization's fora.  It is a possibility
that
  Sebastian Klein is on vacation or incommunicado for some other reason, but
we
  find it unreasonable that this Panelist has not asked to be excused from
  attending meetings of the Panel or posting on the atLarge-discuss list.

  5) It is our recommendation to the Panel that:

  a) All unknown Panelists be required to introduce themselves to the
  membership on the atLarge-discuss list. (With the exception of one member
  which comment is set as addendum (iii) below.)

  b) Sebastian Klein be contacted and advised that his failure to attend
three
  consecutive meetings or his failure to vote on three consecutive motions
  will lead to his automatic resignation from the Panel. (With the exception
of one member
  which comment is set as addendum (iv) below.)

  c) if, for any reason, Sebastian Klein (or any other Panelist) resigns
from the
  Panel, The next highest, qualified, vote-getter should be asked to join
the
  Panel as a replacement.

  Addendum (i)  Sotiris Sotiropoulos dissented from that consensus with the
following notation:
  "No. No. No.  We have established nothing of the kind.  I cannot agree."
  Addendum (ii)  Micheal Sherril dissented from the consensus with the
following notation:
  "No, we have not established that statement for certain"
  Addendum (iii)  Micheal Sherril dissented from the consensus with the
following notation:
  "If they have not introduced themselves to the atLarge discuss list by
this
  deadline this is a moot point.  Recommend the boot, instead.  They have
already
  been asked several times to do this."
  Addendum (iv)  Micheal Sherril dissented from the consensus with the
following notation:
  "Same as above.  Klein has missed the deadline.  Recommend the boot,
instead.

  Eleven members volunteered to work on this committee, nine members
participated.

  The nine participants are:
  Joey Borda
  Jeff Holt
  Kristen Doyle
  Martha Gotlieb
  Joanna Lane
  Micheal Sherril
  Sotiris Sotiropoulos
  Abel Wisman
  Ron Sherwood.