Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Inconsistency with ALSC recommendations

[Thomas Roessler]

I'm confused.

I seem to understand that your proposal is this:

 - There is a certain number of board seats per geographical region.
 - Voters are assigned to regions by residence.
 - Candidates can run in any region they like (but only in one at a 
   time), and it's up to voters in that region to determine whether 
   or not they want to be represented by a board member which comes 
   from a different region (by whatever definition - citizenship, 
   residence, ...).

In this case, the AL board seats indeed could theoretically be 
assigned to US (or European, or Asian) citizens or residents - but 
only if the voters residing in ALL regions vote for such candidates. 
(Which seems to be what Joanna says.)

Am I understanding your (Esther's) proposal and your (Joanna's) 
reply correctly?

On 2001-10-25 10:36:27 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote:
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>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:36:27 -0400
>To: Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>
>From: Esther Dyson <edyson@edventure.com>
>Subject: Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Inconsistency with ALSC recommendations
>Cc: Mike Roberts <mmr@darwin.ptvy.ca.us>, <forum@atlargestudy.org>
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>No, that's not correct; sorry for being unclear.   I'm looking for the *AL 
>voters* to be able to express their own interests in geographical 
>diversity, by region. Because the non-AL board members are not elected 
>regionally, I would keep the diversity requirements for them....
>
>Esther
>
>At 07:21 PM 10/24/2001, Joanna Lane wrote:
>>on 10/24/01 4:59 PM, Esther Dyson at edyson@edventure.com wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > My personal opinion is that someone should be allowed to run within
>> > whatever region she believes she has a chance of being elected. If an 
>>Asian
>> > citizen  resident in Europe (or in Asia, for that matter!) can convince
>> > Europeans (for example) that he can represent them properly, more power 
>>to
>> > him!
>>
>>In other words, it is your personal recommendation that ICANN drop all
>>requirements for geographical diversity at Board candidate level, in which
>>case, the entire ICANN Board can be made up of American citizens (or Asian
>>for that matter!).
>>
>>Can another member of the ALSC comment on that?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Joanna
>
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