Re: [ALSC-Forum] RE: Sims/EU development

[Jeff Williams]

Karl and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  Thank you Karl!  As usual you are direct, to the point and succinct.
Well done and I am sure much appreciated.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Esther Dyson wrote:
>
> > I am not jumping to conclusions yet. I don't know what Joe has or has not
> > said or done, nor do I know how other people (including the board) will
> > react to whatever proposal he may have floated.
>
> As a member of the Board of Directors I can attest to the fact that I know
> nothing about what was proposed; that no summary or notice of this was
> given to me; and that I am aware of no board discussion of, much less any
> board decision upon, these issues.
>
> > From my perspective, I will treat this whole episode as a plot to persuade
> > people that they have to get a little more cohesive and pledge to support
> > an At-Large Membership even if they dislike some details, or they may
> > entirely miss the chance to improve ICANN into what they want it to
> > be.  [this is a joke, folks, but not entirely]
>
> I very much agree with you - there are too many out here who expect the
> at-large to be organized for them by ICANN.
>
> I personally don't want ICANN to create anything more than the basic
> at-large registration and voting system (with the ancillary mechanisms for
> candidates to sign up to be on the ballot.)  Those are already non-trivial
> cost items, but they are ones of sufficiently constrained scope that
> ICANN, as an entity, ought to bear the costs as part of the price of its
> existance.
>
> It is my preference that ICANN then leave the at-large to either coelese
> or fade on its own initiative; to build its own internal structures, its
> own communication structures, and everything else using its own efforts.
> That this is possible was demonstrated by the very useful communications
> systems that were created by third parties during the last set of
> elections.
>
> The key to make this possible is the availability of the voter/membership
> rolls.
>
> ICANN should make elections possible; the at-large itself make them a
> reality.
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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