Ellen and all,
We agree with Ellen here as well, and we should also reach out to other
lists and Stakeholders, which I don't believe that Ellens Poll did but ours
did (See results below these comments, which I have also posted previously).
Ellens questions suggested below are good ones as a good "Straw Poll"
to use as a benchmark for where opinion is on some issues, but not
quite in depth enough, however we find no problem in it and I will be
taking it on these lists. I will also be passing it along to some of
our staff for participation to other channels and lists for further and broader
participation.
Ellen Rony wrote:
> 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?
>
> [x] YES
> [ ] NO
>
> SHOULD THE SOs BE REQUIRED TO INCORPORATE?
>
> [ ] YES
> [x] NO
==== Adding the following poll questions=========
SHOULD THERE BE "CONSTITUENCIES" IN ANY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
BYLAWS STRUCTURE TO REPRESENT SPECIAL INTERESTS?
[ ] YES
[X] NO
SHOULD ANY AN ALL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS OF A DNSO REQUIRE
A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE GENERAL OR AT LARGE MEMBERSHIP
BEFORE ENACTMENT AND SUBMISSION TO THE ICANN?
[X] YES
[ ] NO
SHOULD ANY POLICY DECISIONS OF CONSIDERATIONS OF THE ICANN
BE SUBJECT TO MAJORITY VOTE BY THE GENERAL OR AT LARGE
MEMBERSHIP BY MAJORITY VOTE BEFORE ENACTMENT?
[X] YES
[ ] NO
>
>
> Ellen Rony Co-author
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