Re: [ALSC-Forum] Inconsistency with ALSC recommendations

[Jeff Williams]

Karl and all stakeholders or interested parties,

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Esther Dyson wrote:
>
> > >The region for which an ICANN Board candidate may stand is determined by
> > >citizenship of the individual, whereas the electorate for each At Large
> > >region is determined by residency of the individual.
>
> > >Problem: ... this means that an individual domain name holder is not
> > >eligible to vote in the same region for which they may stand for
> > >election.
>
> > this is an ICANN-wide issue that has not yet been resolved.
>
> One has to question the decision making ability of the ALSC if they can't
> even answer that simple question.

  Indeed.

>
>
> The criteria for "location" of a candidate and of a member ought to be the
> same.  Is that so hard to decide?

  No it isn't, unless one wants to use this as a political football, or a means

for exclusion, than it is.

>
>
> The next question, whether to use residency or citizenship as the
> "location" is perhaps a bit harder to decide, but it's still pretty easy:
> My suggestion is that since there are far fewer candidates than at-large
> members the candidate criteria for "location" ought to track whatever
> is used for members.

  Maybe yes here in our opinion.  We have a number of members that have
dual citizenship and also reside in neither country in which they are a
citizen.
I have dual citizenship, and reside in the US as I am a US citizen.

>  And since there has already been a lot of time and
> money spent establishing member "location", the method used last year
> ought to simply be continued.

  I am not sure we completely agree on this.  The method used last year
can work and work well IF it is handled properly and fairly.  We have
suggested that the FEC of the US should oversee any and all ICANN
At-Large elections to insure fairness is maintained and ALL votes
are counted.  Secondly, as it is difficult in come countries to verify
residency of individuals, it would seem reasonable that each potential
member declare as a process of their registering and an AT-Large
member (Not an ALSO member as Mike Roberts properties is
in place or exists yet), their "Location".  Should their "Location"
change a form on the At-Large membership web page should
and can be provided for that individual to fill out that online form
with all the information reasonable for indicating that change in
"Location" or even the E-Mail address they are using for voting
purposes. Of course "Location" information should be kept
private and not used for soliciting purposes of any kind without
the express permission of the individual/At-Large member.

>
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,
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