Re: [ALSC-Forum] FYI: Elections not budgeted

[Jeff Williams]

Alex and all stakeholders,

  Lets be clear here, Alex.  The ICANN BoD has moved in an unannounced
BoD meeting that it is not interested in any @large elections, a
definite step
in killing off the @large all together, to eliminate Karl Auerbach and
Andy
Mueller-Maguhn as directors on the ICANN BoD or any subsequent
@large directors....

Alexander Svensson wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> although this has already been circulating on
> various ICANN-related mailing lists, I'm reposting
> it here on the At Large Study Committee list,
> since it probably didn't reach everyone interested
> in the issue:
>
> The proposed ICANN budget for the financial year
> 2001/2002 contains $0.00 for At Large elections. [1]
> Only the Study Committee itself with its $450,000
> budget is mentioned in the proposal. In a prior version
> of the budget proposal [2], the expenses for "Special
> Projects - At Large" was still "tbd" (to be determined).
>
> In the same budget, it says that the completion
> of the At Large study and the implementation (!)
> of the Study Committee's recommendations adopted by
> the Board are among the "Specific Priorities for FY01-02".
>
> As Jonathan Weinberg pointed out on the DNSO GA list,
> there is a passage in the ICANN bylaws [3] about the
> study which states that
>   Any actions taken by the Board as a result of the study
>   that require the selection of any "At Large" Directors
>   should be implemented on a schedule that will allow any
>   new "At Large" Directors to be seated no later than the
>   conclusion of the Annual Meeting of the Corporation in 2002.
>
> That Annual Meeting will take place in the end of 2002,
> and the budget for the fiscal year 01/02 (1-Jul-2001 to
> 30-Jun-2002) does not contain any allowance for the
> membership registration process, let alone the election
> process. (For the first elections, the registration
> period began in February, the deadline was in the end
> of July, the elections were in October.)
>
> ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf has responded to the criticism
> by referring back to the At Large Study Committee final
> report "which is supposed to include consideration of
> funding among many other things." (The report shall be
> finished until the Los Angeles meeting in November 2001.)
>
> So, unless the budget proposal is amended in Stockholm,
> there is a budget to study the At Large, but no budget
> for the At Large!
>
> Best regards,
> /// Alexander
>
> [1] http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/doc00026.doc
> [2] http://www.icann.org/financials/preliminary-budget-19feb01.htm
> [3] http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#II
>
> See also
> http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=140

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