Jonathan Zittrain wrote:
>> Is there any way, architecturally, to do
>> better for discussion of the issues than what we have now?
Eric Weisberg wrote:
>
>Yes, if our purpose is to arrive at conclusions and take action.
>If that were the case, we would have to elect a moderator and take
>votes.
I prefer the approach of taking a poll, not a vote, since the subscriber
list is not the same as an ICANN membership. Polls are informal, non
binding, and speedy. They can be used to guage the subscriber sentiment on
an issue. For example, I just ran a poll on the domain policy list (405
members) asking whether or not InterNIC should charge for domain name
registration at the time the application for a name is submitted. The poll
had 11.4% response rate, running more than 2 to 1 in favor of prepayment.
(See http://www.domainhandbook.com/poll-0199.html for specific stats.)
I think the Berkman Center would have an appropriate role as the poll
taker, and people should be allowed to respond to the list or privately. I
believe polls attract a higher response rate when they are made available
through mailing lists than when we are obligated to go to a website and
sign on. It's akin to a detour in our cybertravel.
So my recommendation is to come up with occasional questions and put them
out for response. In the poll mentioned above, I deleted all duplicates
and made no attempt to verify votes since the weight of the DNS world
didn't rely on the outcome. Polls can be concatenated with other
identical polls on other lists (so long as respondents aren't allowed to
respond more than once to the same question).
If you like the polling idea, my first two question would be:
SHOULD ICANN HOLD BOARD MEETINGS THAT ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
SHOULD THE SOs BE REQUIRED TO INCORPORATE?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
Ellen Rony Co-author
The Domain Name Handbook http://www.domainhandbook.com
================================ // ===================================
ISBN 0879305150 *=" ____ / +1 (415) 435-5010
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ ) Tiburon, CA
// \\ "Carpe canine"
__________________________________________________
To receive the digest version instead, send a
blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
___END____________________________________________
