Re: [ICANN-EU] RFD #1: Forum bylaws

["Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>]

Dear Iliya & Alexander, thank you very much for your helpful efforts.


> >>To form a group that is managable in size the European forum limits
> >>itself to European members as defined in V.
> >
> > does this mean that icann-europe will unsubscribe Jeff Williams and
> > William Walsh? And what about the expatriate Joop Ternstra - is he in
> > or out?
> 
> I would propose that non-European members should remain
> list members, but that in case a decision-making mechanism
> is agreed, they should be non-voting members. Obviously,
> every list member has to accept the list rules.

This is ok. Nonetheless, the bylaws should indicate that this list is 
meant primarely for  Europeans. 


> Agree, although the Forum decisions will by it's nature
> currently be non-binding. Nevertheless, there may be occasions
> where we don't want to make the impression that "some bunch of 
> people on some mailing list think that...", but rather that 
> "the European At Large Forum has decided that...". 
> 
> I list some of the options we have:
> 
> a) "Rough consensus"
> We may try to do this without any quantitative voting
> mechanism. 
>  Advantages: No software, no extra work required
>  Disadvantages: Having no 'hard' criteria may lead
>   to a lot of distracting discussions whether a consensus 
>   has been reached or not.

Rough consensus  would be my favorite option. As long as we 
understand ourselves as open forum, we should stick to informal 
procedures of consensus-building. This list is still too small yet to 
decide upon rules that will affect all future members.

jeanette