Re: [ALSC-Forum] Draft report - statistics and "fraud"

[Jeff Williams]

Karl and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  As one of two of the ONLY At-Large elected ICANN BoD members
I want to thank you for telling the honest truth here (See Below Karls
Response).  It is refreshing and good politics to do so so plainly.
I, amongst some 3000 of our members witnessed much of what
your comments below outline and made a number of E-Mail requests
for clarification and correction, to no avail at the time some of these
situations occurred.

  Again Karl, well done and thank you for you frankness!

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> > >In any reasonable election situation, such irregularities would have been
> > >raised in a timely manner - not six months after the fact - so that the
> > >candidates and electors could send observers to ascertain that reasonable
> > >criteria had been created and applied fairly.
> > >
> > >     --karl--
> >
> > Karl - there is plenty of room for criticism of the 2000 At Large
> > election cycle, but it should not be directed at Jody Baram
>
> Huh?  I never raised her name or even thought of her.  Since you did bring
> it up, when I think of election irregularities, quite another set of names
> and faces are seen in my mind's eye.
>
> As was raised in the Mountain View ALSC meeting - there were arbitrary
> decisions made in closed rooms about who would be able to vote in the
> election.  These decisions were apparently made by people who have
> expressed hostility to the at-large concept and the at-large election
> process.
>
> It would have cost nearly zero dollars to send out an e-mail to the
> candidates so that they could have sent observers in person or
> electronically to watch how those irregularities were resolved.
>
> > ... Rather it
> > should be directed to the Board members, including myself, who made
> > the assumption in Cairo that a well sorted out plan for an indirect
> > election could be junked...
>
> Huh?  There was no "well sorted out plan for an indirect election".
>
> The rush of last year's election was a fabrication - there were two years
> to prepare for it.  The fact is that ICANN sat on its collective duff and
> did its best to forestall the election and thus created a contrived
> situation.
>
> ICANN can act quickly when it wants to - one need only look at how quickly
> ICANN raced, ignoring every impediment, including the impediment of open
> participation, in establishing the UDRP and its complex system of licensed
> arbitrators.
>
> The fact that ICANN made back-room decisions were being made about who
> could vote is appalling.  The fact that the existance of these decisions
> wasn't made public for many months is simply unacceptable.
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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