RE: [ga] 6000+ unique At Large Members?

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

> From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:21 PM

> the elections list can't be used -- ICANN always took the position that
> privacy rules prohibited contacting those people by or for the GA...

That's not true. ICANN Staff approved a one time only use of the original
election list in 2001. Esther and Denise used it to Announce and solicit
interest for the ALSO. The point is that 6000+ did not respond positively to
that initial call, so who are the other 5,000+ being claimed as original At
Large Members? The only explanation I can find is that they are now calling
the Election list the ALSO, the difference being the elimination of
addresses that bounced and the removal of constraints to reuse it.

Joanna



>
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joanna Lane wrote:
>
> > ICANN really must reassure the Department of Commerce that it is not
> > bolstering its credibility by falsely claiming interest that it
> does not in
> > fact have. The 6000+ must be a typo, or how has Denise arrived at this
> > number?
> >
> > Conservatively, that has to be about 5,000 more people than
> have actually
> > participated in the At Large debate since the end of the
> Elections in 2000.
> > Of those registered at that time, many are now represented in the GNSO
> > constituencies, on the ALAC itself and in ICANN Staff Offices.
> Even serious
> > lobbying in the public fora by the most passionate of activists
> failed to
> > raise more than, say, let's be generous, 1,000 at any one time
> on any list.
> > So who are these 6,000 unique individuals exactly? Where are they from?
> >
> > In total there have been 3 Announce lists for the At Large,
> each grown from
> > the previous, with a large number of duplications between the lists as
> > people rolled from one to the next, each shut down by ICANN in turn. ID
> > verification is an unresolved problem as people joined these
> lists multiple
> > times using different names and email addresses. What steps are
> ICANN Staff
> > taking to protect the integrity of the lists they are compiling?
> >
> > Even if the 6000+ number is correct, which is hard to believe, it is a
> > matter of record that the vast majority were attracted by the
> opportunity to
> > vote in an election. ICANN's abandonment of democratic
> foundations, viewed
> > as a betrayal, has now manifested itself as zero interest in this new
> > venture. In reality, prior interest is most definitely not
> ongoing from the
> > At Large Lists of the past, especially for an organization that is not
> > founded in democratic principles.
> >
> > Did Denise take the original At Large electorate data for 2000
> and subtract
> > the number of emails that bounced on the ALSC Announce List? If so, that
> > would confirm an impressive 90+% failure rate to foster At Large
> > participation over the last 3 years.
> >
> > For the record, the At Large Announce lists amount to these:-
> >
> > 1) Year 2000: At Large Elections List, closed more than 2 years ago.
> > 2) Year 2001: ALSC list, roughly 1,000+ rolled over from earlier list,
> > numbers declined to a handful of participants when closed more
> than 1 year
> > ago.
> > 3) Year 2002: 100+ active participants from the 2001 list rolled over to
> > ICANNAtLarge.com, originally funded by ICANN Staff under the
> leadership of
> > Denise Michel. Membership grew to roughly 1000, of which only a handful
> > remain active today.
> >
> > By my calculations, that makes about 60 left, not 6,000.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joanna
> >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of
> > > DannyYounger@cs.com
> > > Sent: 22 April 2003 17:13
> > > To: ga@dnso.org
> > > Subject: [ga] 6000+ names
> > >
> > >
> > > Just posted:
> > >
> > > ICANN's technical staff is working on combining past At-Large announce
> > > lists (with 6000 + names) for the ALAC's use and an announce list
> > > subscribe/un-subscribe mechanism for the ALAC's website.  I
> expect this
> > > to be operational very soon.
> > >
> > > Denise
> > >
> > > http://forum.icann.org/mail-archive/alac/msg00189.html
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