INEGroup Announce Vote to: [ALSC-Forum] Constructive improvements

[Jeff Williams]

Joop and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  The vote as requested below from Joop on his Poll from INEGroup
members is now in with 93% of the members participating in the vote.
 See results below

> Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> > At 20:59 26/10/01 -0700, Mike Roberts wrote:
> > >   Second, think seriously about constructive improvements in the
> > > recommendations of the ALSC.  Nobody cares that you don't like a
> > > particular recommendation, they want to know whether you have a better
> > > idea, an idea that is good enough to gather the support of a lot of other
> > > interested parties that may not share your individual political or social
> > > or economic background but are nevertheless interested in the future
> > > welfare of ICANN.
> >
> > 1. To accept that for the next 3 years Individual Domain Name Holders
> > (*real* individuals, not "contacts") make up the ICANN at large membership.
> >   For many this will be a huge compromise.
> >
> > 2. To accept that a balance needs to be imposed on the future ICANN Board
> > to safeguard abuse of power by the "service producer" side of the
> > governance equation.
> >
> > 3. To accept six regional directors and three supra-regional directors, wo
> > can come from any region and for whom *all* voters can vote.
> > Currently, (thinking of candidates like Tiller, Symons or Lessig) I would
> > not mind if all these would end up to be North American.
> >
> > 4. To give consideration to candidates and their voters from countries who
> > in the current structure can never expect to be elected: (Australia, New
> > Zealand and Israel)  and re-structure the geography -based   regional
> > division to a more culturally-based one to accommodate them.
> > ( I would propose to give real meaning to the sixth region proposed by the
> > ALSC and allow the voters and candidates of Israel to stay out of it
> > and  join the North American region, which is more likely to share their
> > Internet thinking; likewise, for the Australians and New Zealanders, who
> > could never hope to gain a seat in the Asia/Pacific setup, to become part
> > of a "European" region.)
> >
> 2% of participating members vote [x] I would be willing to support this as a
> consensus solution
> 98% of participating members vote [x] I would not support this
>

Regards,


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Jeffrey A. Williams
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