Linda and all, I wonder how this could occur as stated in this announcement when to my knowledge none of the applicants that applied for membership, including myself, have received the information or anything sense applying? Can you answer this for all of us please... ICANN wrote: > ICANN CREATES AT LARGE ELECTION AND NOMINATING COMMITTEES > > (May 9, 2000) The Internet Corporation for Assigned > Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the appointment > of Election and Nominating Committees that will play key > roles in the process by which five At Large Directors of > ICANN will be selected later this year through a global > online election. > > The At Large Members of ICANN are individuals who have > indicated an interest in participating in ICANN. They > will vote to select five Directors for the ICANN Board, > one from each of five defined geographic regions > (Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, > and North America). With nearly 15,000 applications so > far, ICANN's At Large Membership outreach effort has > been greeted with notable enthusiasm among the > members of the global Internet community. > > Today's announcement marks the beginning of the first > phase of this selection process. The Nominating > Committee will nominate a set of At Large candidates. > At the same time, ICANN's Election Committee will > solicit and select an outside vendor for the online > voting system, and complete detailed recommendations > for ICANN's campaign and voting procedures, including > independent oversight and monitoring. > > Following this first phase, there will be > > * a petition period, in which candidates who > were not nominated by the Nominating Committee > can seek a place on the ballot by attracting a > minimum threshold of support from At Large > Members in her/his region via online petition; > > * a campaign period; and > > * the vote of the At Large Members. > > About the Election Committee > > The Election Committee will develop detailed > recommendations on the ICANN election procedures, > subject to public review and comment prior to ICANN's > next meeting in July. The Election Committee will > propose the rules that will apply in this election for > campaigning, voting, measures to prevent vote fraud, > and independent oversight and monitoring. The Committee > will solicit proposals from third-party vendors of > online voting systems, and will recommend a vendor > to the Board. To read more about the Election > Committee, its charter, and its members, please > see http://www.icann.org/elcom/. > > The Committee's membership includes experts in > electronic voting, Internet infrastructure and > security and election oversight and monitoring. The > members of the Election Committee are: > > o Greg Crew - Chair > > Greg Crew is currently Chairman of the Australian > Communications Industry Forum Ltd., Chairman of the > Australian Information Technology Engineering Centre > Ltd., and a non-executive director of ERG Ltd. (Perth) > and of Silicon Wireless Ltd. (California). He was > Chief Executive Officer of Mercury Communications > Ltd. (UK) (1993-95) and Chief Operating Officer of > Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd. (1991-93). He was > one of the nine initial Directors of ICANN. He lives > in Australia. > > o Charles Costello > > Charles Costello became director of the Carter > Center's Democracy Program in December 1998. > Previously, he was director of the Center for Democracy > and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International > Development (USAID) since shortly after its creation > in 1994. From 1993-94, he headed the USAID mission > in post-conflict El Salvador, overseeing programs to > help demobilize forces, support reformed political > institutions, and rebuild civil society. At USAID > since 1975, he also had headed USAID missions in > Ecuador and Guatemala and served in Kenya and Bolivia. > A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala and > staff member in Colombia, he earned a bachelor's > degree from the University of Michigan and a J.D. > from the University of California at Berkeley. He > lives in the United States. > > o Lorrie Faith Cranor > > Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Senior Technical Staff > Member in the Secure Systems Research Department at > AT&T Labs-Research Shannon Laboratory in Florham > Park, New Jersey. She is chair of the Platform for > Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification > Working Group and co-chair of the P3P Interest > Group at the World Wide Web Consortium. Her research > has focused on a variety of areas where technology > and policy issues interact, including online > privacy, electronic voting, and spam. Dr. Cranor > received her doctorate degree in Engineering & > Policy from Washington University in St. Louis in > 1996. She lives in the United States. > > o Patrik F�ltstr�m > > Patrik F�ltstr�m works at Tele2/Swipnet. He works > on technologies involving everything from directory > services, indexing technologies, electronic mail > and DNS, especially internationalization issues. > He is one of two area directors of the Applications > Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force, and is > a member of the Internet Engineering Steering > Group. He has been involved in Internet > standardization since 1989. Since 1994 he has been > helping the Swedish Tax Authorities to deliver live > election results over the Internet to newspapers > and radio and tv stations. He lives in Sweden. > > o Ken Fockler > > Ken Fockler is the President of Tenac Consulting, > a company he founded in 1997 after the wrap up > of CA*net Networking Inc., where he was President > from 1992 to 1997. He is a Director of ICANN, > chosen by the Address Supporting Organization. > He lives in Canada. > > o Hans Kraaijenbrink > > Hans Kraaijenbrink is a member of the Executive > Board of ETNO, the European Telecommunications > Network Operators association, located in Brussels. > He is also Manager, European Policy and Regulation > with Royal KPN N.V., the Netherlands where he is > responsible for European and international > regulatory strategic affairs. He was one of the > nine initial Directors of ICANN. He lives in the > Netherlands. > > o Nguyen Huu Dong > > Nguyen Huu Dong is Senior Political Affairs > Officer at the Department for Political Affairs > of the United Nations. Since 1998, he has been > General Coordinator for a UNDP project on > assistance to electoral observers in Mexico. > Beginning in 1989, he has been involved in UN > electoral missions in Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador, > Eritrea, South Africa, Nigeria, and East Timor. He > has been a member of UN need assessment missions > for electoral missions to El Salvador, Eritrea, > Mozambique, South Africa, Guyana, Nicaragua, > Liberia, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Mali, Haiti, the > Central African Republic, Western Sahara, Mexico, > Guinea, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. He has been a member > of UN electoral follow-up and report missions to > Djibouti and the Seychelles. He has been > coordinator of international electoral observation > in Ethiopia (1992) and Nigeria (1999). He holds > degrees from the Universit� de Lausanne (B.A.), the > Universit� de Paris-Sorbonne (M.A.), and the > Universit� de Paris-V/Ecole des Hautes Etudes > en Sciences Sociales (Ph.D.). He lives in Mexico > City and New York. > > About the Nominating Committee > > The Nominating Committee will identify and nominate > outstanding candidates to stand for election to the > ICANN Board. This committee will actively seek input > (such as recommendations and expressions of interest) > from all members of the Internet community. > Procedures will be announced shortly. The Nominating > Committee will complete its work by the end of July, > after which the election process will proceed to the > petition, campaign, and voting phases. For more > information on the Nominating Committee, please see > http://www.icann.org/nomcom/. > > The members of the Nominating Committee are: > > o Linda Wilson - Chair > > Linda S. Wilson is president emerita of Radcliffe > College, presently on sabbatical leave after serving > as president for a decade, and one of the nine > initial Directors of ICANN. She lives in the United > States. > > o Jean-Fran�ois Abramatic > > Jean-Fran�ois Abramatic is Chairman of W3C, the > World Wide Web Consortium, and a Director of > ICANN selected by the Protocol Supporting > Organization. He lives in France. > > o Mads Bryde Andersen > > Dr. Mads Bryde Andersen is a professor of private > law at the University of Copenhagen. He is chairman > of the Danish Internet Forum (the registrar for > the .dk domain). He lives in Denmark. > > o John Klensin > > John Klensin is Internet Architecture Vice > President of AT&T. He is also Chair of the > Internet Architecture Board. He lives in the > United States. > > o Jun Murai > > Jun Murai is currently Professor, Faculty of > Environmental Information, Keio University (Japan); > Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Advanced > Studies, United Nations University; Instructor at > Tokyo University of Art and Music; President of > the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC); > General Chairperson of the WIDE Project (a Japanese > Internet research consortium); Vice Chairperson of > the Japanese chapter of the Internet Society; and > Vice President of the Japanese Internet > Association. He is a member of the board of the > Internet Society, and one of the intial Directors > of ICANN. He lives in Japan. > > o Charles Musisi > > Charles Musisi is an Internet consultant, and the > delegated administrator of the ccTLD for Uganda > (.ug). He helped build Uganda's first networks, > and currently runs the East Africa Help Desk. He > is a member of the Board of Trustees of AfriNIC. > He lives in Uganda. > > o Alejandro Pisanty > > Alejandro Pisanty is currently Coordinator for > Open and Distance Education at UNAM, the National > Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City, > Mexico. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of > CUDI, Corporaci�n Universitaria para el > Desarrollo de Internet, the Mexican Internet 2 > Consortium, as well as of ISOC Mexico. He is a > Director of ICANN, selected by the Domain Name > Supporting Organization. He lives in Mexico. > > About ICANN > > The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and > Numbers (ICANN) is a technical coordination body for > the Internet. Created in October 1998 by a broad > coalition of the Internet's business, technical, > academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming > responsibility for a set of technical functions > previously performed under U.S. government contract by > IANA and other groups. > > Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of the > following identifiers that must be globally unique for > the Internet to function: > > * Internet domain names > * IP address numbers > * protocol parameter and port numbers > > In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of > the Internet's root server system. > > As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is > dedicated to preserving the operational stability of > the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving > broad representation of global Internet communities; > and to developing policy through private-sector, > bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the > participation of any interested Internet user, > business, or organization. See http://www.icann.org. > For more information on ICANN's At Large Membership, > see http://members.icann.org. Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
