Re: [ALSC-Forum] Constructive improvements

[Jeff Williams]

Joop and all stakeholders or interested parties,

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> Sorry I didn't do this right the first time.
>
> If we have no more time to complete this here in this forum, we can put
> this up in the Polling Booth to facilitate a straw poll.
>
> At 20:59 26/10/01 -0700, Mike Roberts wrote:
> >   Second, think seriously about constructive improvements in the
> > recommendations of the ALSC.  Nobody cares that you don't like a
> > particular recommendation, they want to know whether you have a better
> > idea, an idea that is good enough to gather the support of a lot of other
> > interested parties that may not share your individual political or social
> > or economic background but are nevertheless interested in the future
> > welfare of ICANN.
>
> 1. To accept that for the next 3 years Individual Domain Name Holders
> (*real* individuals, not "contacts") make up the ICANN at large membership.
>   For many this will be a huge compromise.

  And for the second time my vote is the same...

>
>
> [ ] I would be willing to support this as a consensus solution
> [x] I would not support this
>
> 2. To accept that a balance needs to be imposed on the future ICANN Board
> to safeguard abuse of power by the "service producer" side of the
> governance equation.

  Also for the second time my vote is the same.

>
>
> [ ] I would be willing to support this as a consensus solution
> [x] I would not support this
>
> 3. To accept six regional directors and three supra-regional directors, wo
> can come from any region and for whom *all* voters can vote.
> Currently, (thinking of candidates like Tiller, Symons or Lessig) I would
> not mind if all these would end up to be North American.

  Again for the second time my vote is the same..

>
>
> [ ] I would be willing to support this as a consensus solution
> [x I would not support this
>
> 4. To give consideration to candidates and their voters from countries who
> in the current structure can never expect to be elected: (Australia, New
> Zealand and Israel)  and re-structure the geography -based   regional
> division to a more culturally-based one to accommodate them.
> ( I would propose to give real meaning to the sixth region proposed by the
> ALSC and allow the voters and candidates of Israel to stay out of it
> and  join the North American region, which is more likely to share their
> Internet thinking; likewise, for the Australians and New Zealanders, who
> could never hope to gain a seat in the Asia/Pacific setup, to become part
> of a "European" region.)

  Again my vote is the same..  IF all voters was inclusive of ALL stakeholders
including users that are non-domain name holders, I could vote in favor of
this provision.

>
>
> [ ] I would be willing to support this as a consensus solution
> [x] I would not support this

  Again I will forward this to our members and post their votes
back to this forum, by percentage.

Regards,

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