Re: [ALSC-Forum] Inconsistency with ALSC recommendations

[Esther Dyson]

We're not supposed to making decisions. We're supposed to be looking for 
consensus.  (And yes, our assumption was to stick with the way ICANN does 
it now, unless some more popular approach emerges.)

Thanks for some input. We look forward to additional views.

Esther

At 04:45 PM 10/24/2001, Karl Auerbach wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Esther Dyson wrote:
>
> > >The region for which an ICANN Board candidate may stand is determined by
> > >citizenship of the individual, whereas the electorate for each At Large
> > >region is determined by residency of the individual.
>
> > >Problem: ... this means that an individual domain name holder is not
> > >eligible to vote in the same region for which they may stand for
> > >election.
>
> > this is an ICANN-wide issue that has not yet been resolved.
>
>One has to question the decision making ability of the ALSC if they can't
>even answer that simple question.
>
>The criteria for "location" of a candidate and of a member ought to be the
>same.  Is that so hard to decide?
>
>The next question, whether to use residency or citizenship as the
>"location" is perhaps a bit harder to decide, but it's still pretty easy:
>My suggestion is that since there are far fewer candidates than at-large
>members the candidate criteria for "location" ought to track whatever
>is used for members.  And since there has already been a lot of time and
>money spent establishing member "location", the method used last year
>ought to simply be continued.
>
>                 --karl--


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