mark and all,
Well Mark it is pretty obvious, as kent's logic usually is, that
he is mostly concerned that HIS candidate might not get elected.
So therefore he as some others can justify any false argument
of their perverted choosing.
But you have yet again hit the nail on the head here Mark. Karl
was only truing to do some "Outreach" as part of his volunteerism
and at the same time doing a little "campaigning" as well. Nothing
wrong with that. What IS wrong is the the DNSO Secretariat
and the DNSO Admin. have poorly handled this process as they
have deliberately broken their own rules.
Mark C. Langston wrote:
> On 13 October 1999, Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >In Karl's particular case, it is the candidate himself who was
> >engaged in "nomination stuffing".
>
> [...snip]
>
> Then the NC itself is guilty of this. The Secretariat of the NC
> sent out an announcement on 17 Sep 1999, that began:
>
> [
> [ Sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [
> [ The members of the Names Council are requested to forward
> [ this announcement to the Constitiencies mailling lists
> [ in order to reach all DNSO General Assembly members.
> [
>
> In short, the NC via their Secretariat urged the NC members themselves
> to go to each Constituency and do exactly what Karl did. Why did
> Karl do it? Because ICANN steadfastly refuses to recognize any form
> of an individual domain name owner's constituency.
>
> Further, the messsage stated:
>
> The Names Council has resolved that a candidate, in order to
> be nominated must have the support of, at least, 10 members
> of the General Assembly. For this purpose, anybody who is
> subscribed to the General Assembly mailing list, the
> Announce mailing list or the list of one of the
> Constituencies of the DNSO is considered a member of the
> General Assembly. As the Annouce and General Assembly list
> are open, anybody wishing to participate in the nomination
> process may subscribe to one of these lists and be
> considered a member of the General Assembly.
>
> ...here, the Secretariat explicitly directs people to subscribe to the
> GA list, then participate in the vote. This is exactly what you're
> accusing Karl of, except that Karl knew he was a candidate, and
> was requesting support for himself.
>
> Most people call this "campaigning".
>
> (the entire announcement may be found at:
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Archives/msg00655.html )
>
> It's also interesting that even the beginning of the message assumes
> that the GA is broader than the original definition accepted in San
> Jose. But that's another discussion, in a different post.
>
> --
> Mark C. Langston
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Admin
> San Jose, CA
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