[ncdnhc-discuss] ISOC to bid on .org

[Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM]

Hi!

a salient characteristic of the CIRA election is that all voters have to
be domain-name holders under .ca.

If I remember well our constituency has strenuously opposed such a
condition for the at-large, and I have upheld the objection repeatedly. So
any comparison is somewhere between little-relevant and moot at least on
that basis. BTW the condition seems perfectly right to many in the better
defined realm of a ccTLD administration.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:29:13AM -0400, James Love wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >    Kent, as someone hired by ICANN for at-large.org, do you have complaints
> > about the qualifications of the CIRA elected board members or the decisions
> > they have made?
>
> Your question is, as usual, irrelevant to the point that I made, but to
> answer it anyway, no, I have no complaints whatsoever about the
> qualifications of the CIRA elected board members or the decisions they
> have made.  A difficulty with an election process says nothing at all
> about the characteristics of the winners.
>
> Just to reiterate my point, since you seemed to have deliberately
> ignored it: a 3% turnout is not usually considered to be very good, and
> in fact, many people would call it an "apparent difficulty".  I'm sure
> that CIRA is hoping for a larger turnout this year.
>
> There are numerous other issues with your example I could mention -- the
> CIRA election is a very different kettle of fish than the global
> elections that have been demanded of ICANN.  The CIRA elections are in
> one country with one legal jurisdiction; the potential electorate is
> much smaller; the level of cultural diversity in Canada doesn't compare
> with the worldwide cultural diversity encountered in the ICANN
> elections; CIRA dealt with 2 languages, ICANN would have to deal with a
> very large number of languages; etc etc etc.
>
> In other words, Jamie 1) there *were* apparent difficulties; and 2) even
> if there weren't, your example is irrelevant -- my boat club might hold
> an online election without "apparent difficulty", but that doesn't mean
> that ICANN elections would be easy.
>
> > I asked Jonathan Cohen also on this issue, but have not
> > heard back.  As you know, Jonathan is on the CIRA board.
>
> Yes, I know.
>
> Just one more thing: In your usual steaming inneundo style you said
> above "Kent, as someone hired by ICANN for at-large.org..."
>
> I was not "hired by ICANN for at-large.org".  I registered the domain
> name "at-large.org" back before you heard of DNS, in support of an
> "at-large constituency" for the DNSO (that was an old term for an
> individuals constituency).  I have donated that domain name to the at
> large organizing efforts, and as soon as I can get the paperwork to
> Joker.com, the registrant information will reflect that.
>
> --
> Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> kent at songbird.com                          lonesome."  -- Mark Twain
>
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