Re: [alac] Selecting Our Successors

[Jacqueline Morris <jam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very practical advice! I agree that we need to try something, really try it,
and then we can see how it works, what  succeeds and what doesn't. This
sounds like a good efffort to try.
Jacqueline
On 1/26/06, shahshah@xxxxxxxx <shahshah@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Bret's suggestion is a step in the right direction. It could be adopted
> with the proviso that it is an evolutionary step and its consequences will
> be watched and evaluated for possible further refinement. It is better to
> base any future reform on something empirical like this than on abstract
> discussions that have not yielded fruit in the past.
> Siavash
>
> > At 11:58 PM 1/25/2006, John L wrote:
> >>>Interesting, but when you take away even the modicum of direct
> >>>control that people might appear to have, what's the point?
> >>
> >>To me, the point is that voting would be a sham.
> >
> > Little disagreement there, yet it seems further that an ALS without a
> > vote is pointless.  So we're back to "what purpose is there for a
> > group to participate in this pyramid-like scheme?" and perhaps a
> > proof by absurdity that it needs reform.
> >
> > --Wendy
> >
> >>   I recently sent in ALS applications for CAUCE and CAUCE Canada
> >> which together have upwards of 15,000 members, which I believe is
> >> far more than all of the other NA ALS put together.  So if we're
> >> "voting" weighted by membership, I always win. Or if each ALS gets
> >> one vote, no problem, if I cared I could easily round up a dozen or
> >> so and stuff the ballot box.
> >>
> >>Bret's suggestion leaves the control with the ALSes if they can
> >>agree, which they will if they're smart.  Otherwise the nomcom,
> >>which has been one of the more functional bits of ICANN, gets to
> referee.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet
> >>for Dummies",
> >>Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
> >>"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
> > Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
> > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
> > http://www.chillingeffects.org/
> >
>
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