[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN committee recommends voting restrictions,fewer At-Large di rectors

[Dave Crocker]

At 05:20 PM 8/28/2001, Barbara Simons wrote:
>Yes, the risk is that a group of democratically elected
>Board members might be able to influence ICANN policy.


There is an important difference between capture and influence.

Any member of the board has influence, unless the rest of the board is 
composed of such a voting block that there never will be any tie votes.

Therefore, any block of board members has influence, proportionate with its 
size.

The new proposal leaves the at-large constituency twice as large as any 
other constituency.

Perhaps you could provide some examples of other, large, open, 
operations-oriented organizations that are subject to capture in the style 
that you are advocating?

d/


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