RE: [registrars] GNSO vote

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>]

Hello All,

With regard to the GNSO election:

There has been only one round of email voting.
See
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2003.GNSO-ICANN-seat14-voting-proc.html
for voting procedures.

The registrars reps voted in that round after the email vote amongst
registrars.  This occurred on 12/13 March 2003 (depending on which
timezone you were in).

I expect the interim results of the first round to be published soon.

The results are not finalised until the GNSO Council has ratified the
vote during a physical meeting or teleconference.

It is a bit difficult to comment on who I voted for at this stage, as we
are really in the midst of the election, and results have not yet been
made public.  Given the recent discussion about registrar voting
processes, note the the GNSO council does not display the voting
preferences of members of the council until the vote is ratified.  Each
council member is allocated a code, and each member of council can check
that their vote has been correcly recorded.

All I will say at this stage, is that I voted as a member of council,
representing the registrars constituency.  As a council member I was
involved in accessing each candidate and interviewing each candidate.
As a council member I must act in the best interests of ICANN as a
whole.   Under the ICANN structure, the registrars constituency cannot
"direct" council members on how to vote, just as the GNSO Council cannot
direct its nominees (seats 13 and 14) to the ICANN Board on how to vote.

As a representative of the registrars constituency, I also consulted
with members of the registrars constituency and paid close attention to
the registrar vote.  This is in accordance with the registrar
constituency by-laws:
http://www.icann-registrars.org/pdfs/bylaws1.pdf
That state: 
"As far as is practical, Council representatives shall consult all
relevant matters and decisions with the registrars constituency"

Note also that there are two seats to fill (seat 13 and seat 14).  We
are currently in the midst of an election for seat 14.

Once the election results are final, I will be happy to inform the
registrars constituency of how I voted, and the reason for my decision.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin





-----Original Message-----
From: Nikolaj Nyholm [mailto:nikolajn@ascio.com] 
Sent: Monday, 17 March 2003 12:57 AM
To: 'Ross Wm. Rader'; 'Ken Stubbs'
Cc: 'Registrar Constituency'

> Also Ken, we haven't heard back from the Names Council reps per our 
> request earlier this week to split the vote 2/3 in favor of Palage
> 1/3 in favor of
> Pisanty. I had figured that perhaps our reps were just busy and not 
> able to acknowledge, but now I see that you are indeed here (or are 
> here now). :-)
> 
> Can you shed some light on the status of this request for the benefit 
> of the membership?


As Ross and others, I would also like to enquire into the voting
practices of our reps. Kindly advise.

/n