Re: [ga] Extension of the Interim Board Directors

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:47:29PM +0100, Alf Hansen wrote:
[...]
> I have no such channels, either.  I just think we should focus on
> things we can do something about and act as a Domain Name Support
> Organisation, not as the Owner of the ICANN company.  We can play that
> we are the owners, but it will be a waste of time.  Let us make some
> progress on the issues on item 3 on the Agenda for LA:
> 
>           - Individual Constituency, 10 min
>           - Procedures for GA Chair elections, 10 min
>           - Relationship GA/@Large, 5 min
>           - Multilingual testbed, 5 min
>           - New TLDs,  5 min
>           - DNSO Review, 40 min
> 
>As you see, there are very few minutes per item, so we need to cover them on
>line on beforehand.

There are three issues of potential substance (Multilingual testbed, new
tlds, dnso review), one issue too vague to be discussed (GA/AtLarge),
and two issues that are basically ratholes:

1) there is nothing of consequence about an individual constituency 
that can be accomplished in 10 minutes.  Moreover, it overlaps with the 
DNSO review topic.

2) we have a perfectly adequate procedure for selecting a chair. 
moreover, if one examines the endorsements for board candidates, one
notes a disturbing pattern of *large* numbers of people who have never
participated in the DNSO in any way suddenly turning up to endorse
candidates (for example, Jamie Love had well over 100 endorsements, most
of who had never in any aspect of ICANN previously).   While this might 
be satisfying to supporters of Jamie Love, it illustrates perfectly 
that an election by the GA is terribly susceptible to capture.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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