Re: [Wg-apnic-fees] Results of APNIC fee structure vote (fwd)

[Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>]

Hi Paul,

Paul Wilson said the following on 17/9/07 17:23:
>
> In my experience, the EC has never made a decision on fees without putting 
> it to the membership for a vote in accordance with the normal voting rules.
> 
> As you say however, the EC is empowered to establish the membership fees, 
> and so it would be free to make this decision without a vote; or else to 
> call for a vote and make its decision accordingly.  In a formal sense, such 
> a vote is not strictly binding, since the EC is empowered to make the final 
> decision.

Presumably, as indicated by Che-Hoo too, the EC can take the membership
vote as a guidance on what their recommendation should be, going
forwards. Given the vote was more or less 50:50, there wasn't
overwhelming rejection of the need for a correction on the fee level.

FWIW, I'm still amazed that anyone expects that the Secretariat can
function with a budget that has effectively been slashed at the rate of
spectacular collapse of the US dollar over recent years. I'd hope that
the minimum the EC recommends is move the operating currency over into
something slightly more stable, whether that is the AU$ or the Euro.

philip
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