Summary: A registration process that has the capability of ensuring the highest achievable degree of integrity. With the application of these rules, only verified members of United People will be able to access their respective authorized areas of participation.

1. Member Registry

A. Required Information

Interested individuals, through various United People site facilitators, must submit the following information in order to become officially registered:

i. The first and last name of each member as well as their e-mail address is required. Additional information to attest a new member's identity could also be required by the facilitator to validate their membership.

ii. Each new member can choose their username and password that are required to access the United People website. There cannot be 2 members with the same username.

B. Member Verification

Each United People site facilitator has the responsibility to continually verify the accuracy and authenticity of the Member Registry for which he or she is responsible.

When an application for registration is made

1) The area of the applicant doesn't exist
The facilitator may create any sub-areas that are recognized as a natural geographical sub-division of communities. (ex Country, states, regions, counties, shires, cities, suburbs, districts etc…) to register a member.

2) There is no online validation system to check that the applicant belongs to the area
As soon as possible, a facilitator needs to be appointed for each national level.
Although the integrity of the registration process is of the utmost concern, unchecked registrations are allowed on a national level and below until the national facilitator is appointed or the number of members exceeds 50.
Once the facilitator is appointed or the number of members exceeds 50, a visual or oral validation of identification is required of the existing members plus each additional applicant. (ex chat rooms, youtube videos, telephone etc…)
Oral or visual validation will continue to apply until a reliable online validation system is established - example online Australian Electoral Commission validation of applicant name, town and street name.

3) There is a validation system to check that the applicant belongs to the area
Example: the identity and location of all Australian applicants are verified online using the Australian Electoral Commission database. The applicant registration is validated if the details are verified. If not, the registration cannot be validated. An email is sent requesting the applicant to take the necessary actions to comply with the online validation system.

C. Temporary Login Names and Passwords

All registered members will be automatically e-mailed a United People's login name once their name is entered onto the site by a United People's facilitator. The member must then enter his or her e-mail address on the sign-in page and click "Enter." A temporary login name and password will be e-mailed to the member for initial entry onto the United People web site. During the member's first visit to the site, he or she must select a personal login name and password. This same e-mailing process will be used when a facilitator up-dates the entire member database. When such an up-date is made the database is cleared of all member names, login names and passwords. The database is replaced with a new member list, and each member will need to re-enter their login names and passwords or choose new ones upon their first visit to the site following such an up-date.

D. Member Registry

The official on-site Member Registry (visible to all members) includes the first and last names of all registered members - not their e-mail addresses.

E. Removal of Registered Member due to Inactivity on the Site

A Registered Member will be removed from the active Member Registry when he or she has had no activity on the site for a total number of consecutive days amounting to the Member Inactivity Determinant. The Member Inactivity Determinant value and its associate change rate are determined by the total Registered Members in the settings section of this site. A Registered Member who has been removed from the Member Registry due to inactivity may self activate themselves at any time. index

2. Disclosure on Member Registration:

A. Inaccurate Information

If it is found that the information provided on the member registration form is purposely inaccurate, the member's account will be closed with or without notice.

B. Verification of Information

Each member of United People authorizes the facilitators of the United People site to verify all submitted information.

C. Compliance with United People Policies

By participating in the United People site, each member promises to comply with all current and future policies, terms and rules of the United People web site. A member not in compliance may be refused access to the United People web site. index

D. Proxy voting

Proxy voting is strongly discouraged on this site. Any registered member who solicits for proxy votes should be looked upon with great suspicion. index

3. Authorization

A. Areas of Authorization

All registered members may submit notices to change all deadline, rate and word limit requirements on the United People web site. Registered members are required to separately register for each issue during the times they wish to participate in an issue. A registered member is then referred to as an Issue Participant. Only Issue Participants may enter a notice to "end discussion" for the issue -- and be considered in every subsequent notice, rating and vote thereafter. Any member who has been registered on the site may become an Issue Participant at any time prior to the deadline for the issue's final vote.

Registered members may register and deregister themselves as Issue Participants in an issue as many times as they wish. If a registered member deregisters from an issue, his or her individually entered ratings on the issue will be retained in the data base to be available to them again if they re-register at a future date. During the time a registered member is not registered, any previous ratings will not be calculated in the statistics of the issue. In order to keep all Issue Participants informed of the participation status of the organization, each phase of the decision-making process displays both the total number of registered active members and the total number of Issue Participants.

B. Accountability of Authorization

Each member is accountable for their actions on the United People site. The combined registered members have the responsibility to assure the accountability of each individual member. index

Co-authors: None

Part of proposition copied from a previously submitted proposition: None

1. Member Registry

United People requires the least amount of information from an individual member to establish some degree of accountability. This is to assure that an account is legitimate and not opened for the purpose of tampering with or abusing the site.

The membership qualifications are listed in the United People Declaration. Participation on the United People site is voluntary and not mandatory for members. Specific individuals or office holders must be identified as the responsible parties for carrying out the decisions made by the membership on the United People site.

United People has the right to spot check information provided by members in order to verify that the Member Registry is current, accurate and authentic. Care must be given to make sure that member names are not duplicated in the member registry. This becomes critical in due to multiple subdivisions with United People. If they feel it necessary, the members of each subdivision may give official notice on this site to their facilitator to perform these verification procedures. Since most members will have retained the same e-mail address during a Member Registry up-date, they will simply have to enter their e-mail address on the sign-in page and a new temporary sign-in name and password will be e-mailed to them. As with the first entry onto the site, the member may then choose this or her own personal sign-in name and password. The same sign-in names and passwords may be entered if desired since they will most likely still be available.

The various settings on the site are determined by the total number of Registered Members. These settings are apt to be erroneous and difficult to manage if inactive Registered Members are not removed from the active Registry. Activity on the site can be compared with water flowing through a pond. If the water stops flowing, the pond stagnates and becomes unhealthy. Registered Members may re-activate themselves at any time.

2. Disclosure

Certain disclosures need to be made by United People. These are to make very clear the parameters in which United People may operate in order to do its best to guarantee an unadulterated service to its members.

Proxy Voting

It is the philosophy of United People that the overall integrity of the organization is dependent upon the full integrity of the individual. Therefore, United People provides each individual member the opportunity to exercise her or his personal responsibility. This personal responsibility includes the need to personally be fully familiar with the facts of each issue in which they participate. It also includes the responsibility to enter their own vote - and not allow someone else to vote for them by proxy.

3. Authorization

All registered members have the authority to make adjustments to the basic rules that govern the operation of the site. However, in order to maintain the integrity and fairness of the decision-making process, a point of clarity is needed: All are welcome and no one is refused access to participation in a particular issue. However, the mechanics of this decision-making process will not function properly if non-interested members are included in the statistics of each phase.

All registered members are welcome to submit propositions and participate in all applicable forums on the site; however, members are strongly encouraged to register for participation in any issue at their level of interest and not before. Members should also deregister from an issue when their interest in it wanes. It must be assumed that non-participating members are indifferent to a particular issue (or a certain period of its legislative lifetime) in which they do not register -- and possibly that its acceptance or rejection does not concern them. In order to assure the understanding of this matter an example will be given.

If all indifferent and non-participating registered members were entered into the calculations of this decision-making process and they outnumbered those who were participating, the process would most likely fail at the "Notice to End Discussion" stage. Based upon the percentage of the "Notice to End Discussion" rate, and the non-participants outnumbering the participants, the discussion period will never end. The same applies for every phase of the decision-making process. It must be re-emphasized, however, that any member who has been registered on the site can register for participation in a particular issue at any time prior to the deadline for the final vote. It is also the responsibility of the individual member, who no longer wishes to participate in an issue's reduction or voting process, to deregister from the issue. All members owe it to the best interests of the organization to keep their participation status on all issues current. Members may register and dere! gister themselves in an issue as many times as they wish. This is a fully open, transparent and fair system. If a registered member does not participate in a particular issue and is dissatisfied with the results of the overall members' decisions, they have only themselves, individually, to blame.

Concerning accountability: The integrity of this site is totally dependent upon the integrity of the individuals who use it. This, ideally, should be dealt with prior to opening an account on the site. Facilitators may remove a member for inappropriate activities on the United People web site.     index