Diane Cabell wrote:
>
> I would like to point out that the Membership Advisory Committee recommended
> that the At-large membership consist solely of individuals.
What else? Guinea hens?
> We reversed an
> earlier recommendation to permit organizations to join the at-large and we
> did so over very strong objection from some committee members who felt that
> such corporate support would be absolutely necessary to ICANN's survival.
As indeed it is. But there are better ways of getting that support,
am I right?
> The At-large membership will elect half of the ICANN BoD and as such will
> have the single largest voice in the decision-making process.
I wonder who they are going to be? Will IBM and MCI pay to bus up
ISOC members from South America? Will they make a deal with APNIC to
pay for new infrastructure in Singapore for votes? Will online
voting through dnso.org-style mailing lists suddenly be inaugurated
just in time to get the vote of the ISOC-, CORE-, and
Ogilvie-manipulated masses? Will EDUCOM come to the rescue with a
thousand votes from undergraduates in computer science departments
who have been told that there's only one candidate, like David Maher
did on the ENREDO list? How are they going to work it, do you think?
They must be really scratching their heads over this one, huh?
