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At-Large should update its Rules of Procedure to include a new procedure regarding the functioning and membership of the CoE.

Status:Accept in principle??

Comment: (Nice to acknowledge those who have contributed but no current appointments. Danger of having to induct all people leaving office even if not warranted. Do we need it?) Very low priority.

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While the ALAC recognises the usefulness and purpose of this recommendation, the ALAC believes that the constraints around the membership of this Council, especially in relation to the rigid set of rules around how long a person could serve, how often they could travel, and the presumption that they would be endlessly available regardless of these rules, is (for some of the current “elders” around At-Large) rather laughable. 

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In the entire history of the modern ALAC (after the Interim ALAC was appointed by the Board), there have been 65 RALO and NomCom appointed ALAC members and only five of them have served for more than two consecutive terms (and two of those only exceeded the two-term point after the last AGM). 

Taking this into account, term limits would not have had much impact in the past, and it is unclear if having such limits would have fixed problems, or created them. That being said, term limits may well be reasonable, but it is less clear that two terms is optimal. One RALO currently has a shorter limit, and others may feel that in critical times, the limit should be able to be overridden.