Eric and all,
No, you said it all here Eric. This whole thing is a travesty is
about all
I can add... :( But I have been expecting something like this from
this
ICANN (Initial?) Interim board. It is just simply another example of a
direct
attempt to thwart the White Paper...
Eric Weisberg wrote:
> Andrew McLaughlin wrote:
>
> > The ICANN Board of Directors held its third quarterly
> meeting in Santiago,
> > Chile, today. The Board passed a number of resolutions,
> including the
> > following:
> >
> > ...
> > - Implementation of At Large Membership
> >
>
> "Implementation" is an interesting descriptor for what was
> apparently done.
> Some might call it "newspeak."
>
> I understand that voting will only occur when 5,000 people
> sign up for
> membership. A small fraction of that number have
> participated in the
> IFWP/ICANN process, to date. And, there is nothing for
> individual members of
> ICANN to do but vote for part of the board. If only 4,999
> sign up, they won't
> get to do that.
>
> The resolution provides:
>
> 1. The At-Large membership shall be geographically
> diverse, broadly
> representative of the Internet user community, and shall
> consist of at
> least 5,000 individuals.
>
> And, to make the objective even more difficult to achieve,
> the board
>
> FURTHER RESOLVED [99.__] that, ...the Board reiterates
> its
> determination that
> the At Large membership will ultimately be expected to
> fund its
> operations (including
> the election process)...
>
> Considering the history of participation, the limited role
> contemplated for
> members, the likelihood of membership fees (or poll tax) and
> the subject matter
> of the organization, I now feel like the black law professor
> from Harvard who,
> after passing the English literacy test for voting in
> Mississippi in the '50s,
> was tested in Chinese. He astounded the registrar by
> accurately reading the
> passage upon which he was tested:
>
> "This black man is not going to vote in the state of
> Mississippi."
>
> Does anyone read the board resolution differently? What
> have I missed?
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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