On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 07:54:19AM -0400, James Love wrote:
> Don, not that it matters to those who have the power to decide this, but
> we would welcome a proposal
Just curious: Who are you referring to with your "royal we", above?
> that would give the .org domain owners some power,
>
> *either* by electing their own board (like the CIRA does now, without any
> apparent difficulty),
In last years CIRA election they enrolled all voters in a lottery w/
$15000 in prizes, as an added inducement to vote. In spite of that, out
of 90000 members, ~3000 voted, a 3-4% voter turnout. You can spin that how
you like, but to me, that is a serious "apparent difficulty" that
doesn't give me a lot of warm fuzzy feelings about the election, or the
future stability of CIRA:
2001/07/04
ELECTED BOARD TO MANAGE CANADIAN INTERNET NAME SPACE FOR ALL CANADIANS
OTTAWA, July 4, 2001 - The Canadian Internet Registration Authority
(CIRA) announced today results of its first Board of Directors
election held since taking over operational control of the dot-ca
registry in December 2000. The online election took place from June
22 to June 28, 2001 at www.cira.ca, where CIRA reached out to more
than 90,000 members to select its nine new Board members.
?This is an important milestone for CIRA and all Canadians,? says
Bernard Turcotte, CIRA?s President and CEO. ?We have delivered on our
commitment to involve CIRA members by encouraging them to vote and
elect the governing body for Canada?s presence in cyberspace-the
dot-ca domain.?
Over 3,000 CIRA members exercised their rights by voting online for
fifteen candidates. CIRA wishes to thank all candidates who
participated in the election. The nine candidates...
(http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/48.html)
or voting on the allocation of surplus funds (like
> working assets).
>
> Jamie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Heath" <heath at isoc.org>
> To: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>; <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] ISOC to bid on .org
>
>
> : At 04:34 PM 6/6/02 -0400, James Love wrote:
> : >For use, the key issue will be how ISOC would run .org. Are there any
> : >details on this score?
> :
> : Of course there will be, but it is not for me to say - nor is this the
> time
> : or forum for doing so.
> :
> : Don
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