Path: news.gradwell.net!lon1-news.nildram.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!harlech.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Malcolm Mladenovic Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management Subject: Result: Amend the UK Usenet Committee document (Newsadmin Seats): proposal passes Followup-To: uk.net.news.management Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 21:32:43 +0100 Sender: Iain Bowen as Control Approved: Iain Bowen as Control Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: harlech.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: harlech.demon.co.uk:158.152.39.156 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1001968944 nnrp-10:2261 NO-IDENT harlech.demon.co.uk:158.152.39.156 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Lines: 193 Xref: news.gradwell.net uk.net.news.announce:483 uk.net.news.config:22213 uk.net.news.management:10478 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES - Amend the UK Usenet Committee document (Newsadmin Seats) Summary: Proposal passes - Yes: 36 No: 15 Abstain: 4 There were 21 more 'yes' votes than 'no' votes, and a majority of 12 is required for the proposal to pass. ====================================================================== Voting closed 23:59:59 BST on Fri, 14th Sep, 2001. Primary Votetaker: Malcolm Mladenovic Secondary Votetaker: Alex Holden Proponent: Peter Smyth Distribution: uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, uk.net.news.management ====================================================================== 1. Particulars of the Vote - --------------------------- Name E-mail address Vote Alan Ford alan.sks.whirlnet.co.uk ABSTAIN Glenys Pople gkp.bna.howfen.demon.co.uk ABSTAIN James Coupe james.atje.zephyr.org.uk ABSTAIN Tony Evans tony.sic.darkstorm.co.uk ABSTAIN Andrew Gierth andrew.erlenstar.spl.demon.co.uk NO Charles Lindsey chl.clw.cs.wor.man.ac.uk NO Charles Bryant comnews.vote.ch.vrc.chch.demon.co.uk NO Dave Sparks Dave.Sparks.sisyphus.dfesb.demon.co.uk NO Graham Drabble graham.drabble.soi.lineone.net NO Ian Jackson ijackson.bnt.chiark.greenend.org.uk NO Justa Lurker jlurker.bigfoot.giewh.com NO Peter Parry peter.wpp.ltd.sdopi.uk NO Pekka P. Pirinen ppp.edrai.pirinen.demon.co.uk NO Richard Clayton richard.rlh.highwayman.com NO Robbie Irvine robbie.lssp.arrakis.nu NO Colin Rosenstiel rosenstiel.ripd.cix.co.uk NO {R} {R}.vote.semolina.hda.org NO T Lee tfl.secv.psp.co.uk NO Barry Salter ukvotes.bmff.salterg.demon.co.uk NO Iain Bowen alaric.cgvvv.alaric.org.uk YES Alex D. Baxter alex-news.pfl.oenone.demon.co.uk YES Andrew Hartley andy.jwsna.eastupham.freeserve.co.uk YES Andy Mabbett andy.bejno.pigsonthewing.org.uk YES Barry Dorrans barryd.nlw.bann.co.uk YES bigegg bigegg.asvlh.hardboiled.org.uk YES Chris Bannister cj.dkd.moodog.org.uk YES Denis Mcmahon denis.pickaxe.eiine.demon.co.uk YES rachel walmsley flossie.sykt.sheepish.org.uk YES Geoff Berrow geoff.efuap.hten.org.uk YES Charles F Hankel hankel.freedombird.hbpna.net YES Dave Fawthrop hyphen.fbtlg.hyphenologist.co.uk YES J M Kemp James.etkbu.none.org.uk YES Jezza jezza.khob.hotwells.freeserve.co.uk YES Jonathan Wheeler J.F.hod.Wheeler.rl.ac.uk YES Jack Howard jhoward.firstnet.net.fbncn.uk YES Jon Thomson jon.thomson2273.imsr.freeserve.co.uk YES Steve Firth mail.pseyk.malloc.co.uk YES Michael Farthing mf.tkyyt.cyclades.demon.co.uk YES Mike Fleming mike.iip.tauzero.co.uk YES Molly Mockford molly.mockfords.wttss.clara.co.uk YES David Mahon nadmin_dmahon.bepi.amigo.co.uk YES Neil Fernandez ncf.borve.lkla.demon.co.uk YES Batch {$news$}.bifs.rubious.demon.co.uk YES Nick Leverton nick.leverton.mln.org YES Nigel Ashton nigel.nigelashton.icne.demon.co.uk YES Owen Rees owenrees.waitrose.shp.com YES Peter Gradwell peter.gradwell.mgekp.com YES Peter J Ross peter.j.ross.btinternet.llp.com YES Peter Sullivan peter.eks.manorcon.demon.co.uk YES Philip Powell philip.btst.blencathra.org.uk YES philip page philip.j.page.atn.btinternet.com YES Peter Smyth psmyth.psh.ukf.net YES Six six.lnf.screamingeagle.1to1.org YES Wm tcnw41.tarrcity.smmgn.demon.co.uk YES Eddie Bernard usenet.ebernard.greatxscape.meek.net YES ====================================================================== 2. Votetaker's Comments - ------------------------ No bounced acks. One person voted 4 times (all the same way). One ballot paper was received after the vote closed. Examination of the headers indicated that the e-mail arrived on the voter's ISP some time after the deadline and so that vote had to be discarded. ====================================================================== 3. Voting and Appeal Guidelines - -------------------------------- This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting. UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on behalf of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties. The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: The UKVoting web pages can be found at There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to uk.net.news.announce. Allegations of irregularity should be sent to control@usenet.org.uk. ====================================================================== 4. PROPOSAL - ------------ Change the Membership section to read as follows Membership There shall be two classes of member of the Committee. 1) Permanent Members The UK Network is topologically a star network, with a few central sites on an "inner ring" who feed news to their own branches, and with relatively little cross-communication between branches away from the root. Inevitably, those few central sites are in a position to control what goes out to their own branches, and are therefore classified as Major Service Providers. The Committee shall include, as Permanent Members, one representative of each Major Service Provider, up to a maximum of 4 permanent members. 2) Open Members An Open Member is any person who is a reader of uk.* articles. There shall be 9 Open Members. At each annual Committee Election, all open members who have served a full 3 year term shall retire from the Committee. If at this point there are fewer than three vacant seats then the longest serving member(s) will retire (ties to be broken by lot) as needed to create three vacant seats. Retiring members shall be eligible for re-election. Any newsadmin members already on the Committee will be allowed to serve out their term as open members but no new newsadmins members will be elected as from the date this proposal is adopted. Also to remove all reference to the newsadmin class from the rest of the document: Change the last sentence of the 'Co-opting Committee Members' section to read The committee has the authority to co-opt members for the Open class. Change subsection 1) of the 'Elections' section to read 1) Each year during September, Control shall post (on behalf of UKVoting) to uk.net.news.announce a call for nominations for the Open class of members. Nominations shall remain open for three weeks, and each candidate must and delete the phrase 'in any class' from the first paragraph of subsection 2) of the 'Elections' section. and delete the last paragraph of subsection 4) of the 'Elections' section. ====================================================================== - -- Malcolm Mladenovic, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.1i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBO7jS62OfGXkh8vHZAQHzjAQAniasqzghILNRK13mhfNb0MQ+nQ5jBUA/ NlOx71im7pERqjxEJV5kRw197OExcwgvj6aY4u6LrphRvv8eFXqPqKb/BZzXc+Rv ZZhyNwG0XIsjOftGs7DbsiiTxzokCJy5vIbtmcTDrnincy8V2BH6aMlrDcAGdqXt +eFYc0S3rEw= =5/r+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----