On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:30:06PM +0000, John B. Reynolds wrote:
>If I understand the process correctly, the purpose of the constituency meetings
>is to discuss membership criteria and rules of operation. Voting for officers
>and/or Names Council members can not take place until those rules are in place
>and the constituency has been recognized by ICANN.
>Otherwise, there would be no
>basis for determining who is entitled to vote. This rules out holding such
>elections at or before the Berlin meeting.
Not at all. Anyone can hold elections -- there is nothing to prevent
a proto-constituency from selecting its representatives in advance --
since it has not been recognized by ICANN, it can basically do
whatever it wants. If ICANN chooses to recognize it, then that
election will be meaningful. Of course, ICANN can recognize a group
on a condition that they hold new elections at a later time, or
that they modify their membership rules in some way.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
