Hi,
I am a member of the Western European Membership
Implementation Task Force. I was not consulted!
Andrew McLaughlin replied to my similar question:
"The selection of the nominating & election committees was done
by the Board. Under the election structure, anybody who can
demonstrate a certain minimum degree of support will be able to
win a place on the ballot through the self-nomination (what
Americans call "petition") process. So there is
complete openness through that element of the election structure.
There were no rules other than the Board's best collective judgment.
The membership of those two committees was always going to be
a Board decision. It's step one of a multistep process."
However, he did not say anything about consultation.
But I am still having unanswered question:"What is a certain
minimum of support"?
"Does selfnomination result in any disadvantages compared to the
nominated candidate?"
"Does the nominating committee have any authority to reject
selfnominations, even if they show a "certain degree of support"?
Date sent: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law"
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Subject: [IFWP] Were you consulted?
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As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed
Election and Nominating Committees, without any visible public input.
The announcement is at
http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr09may00.htm .
Commentary suggesting that there were a few flaws in the process can be
found at http://www.icannwatch.org
In response to this criticism, ICANN CEO Mike Roberts is quoted in today's
New York Times as saying that "Icann directors and staff worked hard to
consult widely in the process of forming these committees,"
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/16capital.html .
As far as I can tell, no one I know was consulted, and am I in touch with
a lot of people interested in ICANN. My suspicion is that if ICANN did
engage in consultations at all they were limited to participants in the
late gTLD-MOU and/or representatives of large corporations.
In order to test this intuition, I would be very interested in hearing
from anyone who was actually consulted by ICANN prior to this
announcement, whatever their affiliation.
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