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Re: [atlarge-discuss] [Fwd: motion #2003-12]
This is useful. Thanks to Sotiris for generating it. Do people think that,
as we develop, sub-domains may be developed and run by local/national
groups? For example, say we want an active Latin American section, not in
English, and updated from day to day or week to week. Can this be
accommodated? Would the webmaster hand over control to others for sections
like this? Or do you think links to a multiplicity of independent sites is a
better way forward (like the site www.icannatlarge.co.uk which I have done a
little work on - very underdeveloped)? What would be the rules for the way a
webmaster would relate to the authors of any such subdomains?
Also, as we develop, is it wise to think in terms of a web team or web
committee, bringing together those with graphic skills, writing skills,
translation skills etc?
In these early stages of development, I expect it is useful simply to
implement Sotiris's proposals, but I'm interested to know what people think
about the way our website would develop and be structured.
Finally, I feel cautious about relating/ referring to elected At Large
directors on the ICANN Board. What if (in the unlikely future) ICANN puts
one/some of its 'placemen' on the Board via some fixed ALAC election? Would
they qualify under the terms of section 2?
I don't really understand why our data needs to be protected by elected At
Large ICANN Board members at all at this stage. I think any such guardians
of our data should be specifically chosen by our membership (such guardians
*may* happen to be Karl or similar, but would not have to be). I'm not sure
we should constrain ourselves in these webmaster rules. Elected At Large
ICANN Board members should simply be *one* possibility, but just let the
membership choose.
Yrs
Richard H
----- Original Message -----
From: <bruce@barelyadequate.info>
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:31 AM
Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] [Fwd: motion #2003-12]
> Both of these are great!
>
> A reliable Webmaster is one of our key needs. They maintain our "public
> face."
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> bruce@barelyadequate.info
> http://www.barelyadequate.info
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>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
> | Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:01 PM
> | To: At Large Discuss
> | Subject: [atlarge-discuss] [Fwd: motion #2003-12]
> |
> |
> | I have submitted the following motion for consideration by the panel,
> | and I herein forward it to the list for consideration by the membership
> | as well.
> |
> | --Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> |
> | -------- Original Message --------
> | Subject: motion #2003-12
> | Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:49:13 -0400
> | From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
> | To: panel@mailman.icannatlarge.org
> |
> |
> |
> | Whereas the previous motion #2003-12 provides for the
> | appointment/selection of a webmaster, the following is a motion
> | to approve a set of rules for said webmaster as follows:
> |
> | Whereas the Webmaster will necessarily have a set of responsibilities,
> |
> | Whereas there are currently no Webmaster responsibilities
> | outlined for this organization the following are recommended:
> |
> | 1. Thet the webmaster be responsible for the technical
> | functioning of the
> | website in all respects.
> |
> | 2. That 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/She 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. That the webmaster is responsible to keep the website up-to-date.
> |
> | 4. That the webmaster keeps a public record of the time he
> | spends on webmaster
> | duties.
> |
> | Discretion of Webmaster
> |
> | 5. That the webmaster may update non-controversial text ,design
> | or code on his
> | own initiative
> |
> | 6. That the webmaster may appoint a Forum Administrator to
> | manage all aspects of
> | the website community Forum. Forum administrators may be removed by the
> | webmaster or by direct intervention of a Panel majority.
> |
> | Limitation of Webmaster Discretion
> |
> | 7. That 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. That the webmaster will immediately upon being ordered to do
> | so by formal
> | majority of the Panel:
> |
> | a. remove text or design elements
> |
> | b. change text, links or make other simple changes.
> |
> | 9. That direct instructions to the webmaster by the Panel are under
> | responsibility of the Panel Chair and must be posted on the discuss
list
> | and in the web Forum with the names of the supporting Panel
> | members attached.
> |
> |
> | Seconds anyone?
> |
> | --Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> |
> |
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | --
> | -----------
> |
> | "The science of jurisprudence regards the state and power as the
> | ancients regarded fire- namely, as something existing absolutely.
> | But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for
> | modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon.
> |
> | >From this fundamental difference between the view held by history
> | and that held by jurisprudence, it follows that jurisprudence can tell
> | minutely how in its opinion power should be constituted and what
> | power- existing immutably outside time- is, but to history's questions
> | about the meaning of the mutations of power in time it can answer
> | nothing."
> | --Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"
> |
> |
> |
> |
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