NANOG Evolution

[Betty Burke <bburke () merit edu>]

Hello Everyone:>

We are very happy to report the next steps in the evolution of NANOG are 
underway. We welcome your support and feed-back.

The new NANOG charter is available at:
        http://www.nanog.org/charter.html
changes in the new charter include:

Section 5:  added a parenthetical clause so the text now reads: "Anyone who 
has registered for a NANOG meeting in the previous two years (as of the 
opening date of voting) may vote in any matter which comes before the 
community for a vote."

Section 6:  moved two sentences to section 6.3:  "No action may be taken by 
the committee unless at least four members of the committee are present. 
Those items on which the Steering Committee votes will be decided by 
absolute majority."

Section 6.2.1 - old version:  "Because a large Program Committee will be 
better able to handle the heavy workload, the Program Committee will 
consist of 16 members (plus one member appointed by Merit)."

New version: "The Program Committee will consist of 16 members appointed by 
the Steering Committee plus one member appointed by Merit."
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The candidates for the Steering Committee are:
  Joe Abley
  Randy Bush
  Christopher Chin
  Ron da Silva
  Vince Fuller
  Steve Gibbard
  Dan Golding
  Martin Hannigan
  Dorian Kim
  Mark Kosters
  Jared Mauch
  Chris Morrow
  William B. Norton
  Philip Smith
  Josh Snowhorn
  Dave Wodelet
  Lixia Zhang
Further information found at:
        http://www.nanog.org/candidates05.html
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Community members eligible to vote in the 2005 NANOG Steering Committee 
election are found at:
        http://www.nanog.org/voters05.html
To qualify, you must have attended at least one NANOG meeting in the past 
two years, i.e., between fall 2003 (Chicago, NANOG 29) and spring 2005 
(Seattle, NANOG 34).
Email addresses will be used to authenticate voters during the election. 
Voters for whom Merit does not have an email address are marked with ***. 
If your name is marked, or if you're not listed and believe you should be, 
please send e-mail to nanog-support () nanog org.
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A new email list, nanog-elections () merit edu, for discussion of the 
elections has been created.  Merit will handle moderation of the new list 
per the aup found at:
        http://www.nanog.org/aup.elections.html
(Everyone on nanog-futures is automatically subscribed, and we'll also 
subscribe all eligible voters for whom we have email addresses.) 
Information regarding the election process will be sent to this list is a 
few days.
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Information regarding the NANOG list moderation committee is found at:
        http://nanog.org/listadmins.html
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Lastly, very soon, Steve Feldman (current PC Chair) will be sending 
information regarding the new Program Committee members.
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In summary, THANK YOU to so many for their support, extra time and 
assistance.  Merit and the NANOG community are very grateful.  As always, 
please feel free to send email or call if you have questions regarding this 
email or the NANOG evolution process.

All the best!:>

Betty Burke and Susan Harris
Merit Network