[Serusers] Technical board: Secret vs. public voting, suggested amendment to the rules

[Greger V. Teigre]

Several people have on the lists and privately indicated their concern 
about public voting and the risk that people may feel uncomfortable. I 
have had several discussions privately on the issue and suggest the 
following amendment to the rules for election of the technical board 
(http://www.iptel.org/technicalboard/rules):

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- The parenthesis "(by posting to one of the lists)" is removed from 
item 6.

New items:
9. Before nomination starts, a person and email address should be 
identified publicly as the coordinator of the election process.
10. Nominations are suggested either publicly on one of the lists 
identified in item 6 or privately to the coordinator. Each nominee must 
accept the nomination in order to be electable.
11. Voting is done according to item 8 either by posting who are voted 
for on one of the lists identified in item 6 or privately to the 
coordinator.
12. Nominations and votes shall be anonymously posted to an iptel.org 
webpage and kept updated regularly by the coordinator. The coordinator 
shall keep all posts and private emails with votes as an assurance that 
the result can be verified by a third party.
13. Voting shall be open for seven days.
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I'm sorry this becomes elaborate, but I believe that by being very 
explicit and detailed on the technical board, we may avoid trouble later.

Unless there are change suggestions, comments, or objections within the 
end of the nomination (end of day Monday), I will amend the technical 
board rules and proceed to the voting step.
g-)