Hi Ward!

Wednesday May 10 2006, Ward Dossche wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 WD> Because I think you are a nice well-intending person ... please read ...

Thank you.

 >> So - if he not want - elections abandom (absent) and he is "constantly
 >> ZC"? And RCC have no voices - for starting of elections need
"start"
 >> only from ZC...

Ward, I wrote this not contrary personally you - I illustrate out-of-date Policy!

 WD> These are the cases where ZC-elections come into the pictures:

 WD> * ZC dies during his/her term ... this would be interesting as we have no
 WD>   mechanism that would take-care of the interim-period. IMO the IC could
 WD>   attempt to propose a solution although technically it is not in the job-
 WD>   description;

:-) I hope this variant is not need for us.

 WD> * ZC resigns. When starting the last ZC-election in zone-2 I explicitly
 WD>   mentioned I would not commit to a fixed-term-length but would stay on as
 WD>   long as I was enjoying myself. If people did not like it, they were free
 WD>   to vote for another candidate.

Dictature or monarchy...

Has passed a lot of time, the situation has changed.

 WD>  * ZC impeachment. A majority of RC's ask the IC to start an impeachment.
 WD> This has never been tried/done and I would not advise anybody to try it.
 WD> From my perception it will create more harm than do good as technically it
 WD> would crack the zone in half along uncertain boundaries. The procedure is
 WD> rudimentary described in P4 but contains so many blanks in the text that
 WD> it would turn into disaster.

You understand that the majority RC's in the zone does not want any changes
- reactionaries conservatives...

 WD>  * A sufficient large number of RC's asks me to end my term. Such a
 WD> request certainly would be looked-upon favorably and have me bow-out. But
 WD> what is "sufficient large"? As long as I've got the
support of people with
 WD> a brain such as David Rance, Jan Vermeulen, Sean Rima, Bob Bashe and
 WD> others I see no reason to move-on. [other people with a brain of-course
 WD> are not excluded from this list]

Analogue, and I not agree with your "sufficient large".

 WD> The best shot is to get the RC's to ask me to pack my stuff. For that you
 WD> need a zone-2 based support, which is completely different than what
 WD> you're seeing here.

You have proclaimed a principle of proportionality of weight of RC voice to
number of sysops. Hence, voice R50C for you should be enough. For
objectivity we shall add the requirement still a minimum of one RC,
supporting idea of re-elections.
You such will arrange?


Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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