At 06:03 AM 7/16/99 , you wrote:
>Diane, and I hope you continue; it is helpful. One point I should make: a
>very significant hurdle to any election process is the lack of money to run
>it. It might well be a sensible strategy, especially at this stage of its
>development, for ICANN to have some professional election help, but it has
>no money to pay for that, and given the reaction of some to the effort to
>generate funds through payments by registrars, the prospects for any
>significant funds soon are not good. There is a serious catch-22 here
>that for some ICANN critics is probably not coincidental: complain about
>the lack of an elected Board, and simultaneously make it impossible to
>generate the funds to elect a truly representative Board. I don't know
>what the solution to this conundrum is, but there is no doubt that the
>opposition to the creation of any regular source of funding is a serious
>impediment to devising and implementing a credible At Large election
>process.
It is plainly preposterous to suggest that you need
big bucks to hold an election. This isn't a presidential
election campaign or the United Nations. All the parties
that ever filed in the DOC proceedings, attended a meeting,
or even zinged off a one liner on an EMail list doesn't
reach more than a couple of thousand people. Conducting
this is a part-time job for a couple of people who could
volunteered from a completely neutral organization.
--tony
