[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[Milton L Mueller]

Yehuda:
It is good to see your support for this very simple and basic form of accountability, which ICANN abandoned in 2000 after the party slate lost the election in the US and Europe.

This form of public input is far more meaningful than the ALAC, which requires people to invest hundreds of hours creating and maintaining organizations which is simply not economically viable given the small stakes individual internet users have in domain name issues.

To support democracy in ICANN about all you can do now is: 
* provide input to ICANN's At Large AC review process, which will be starting soon 
* Make comments in the US Government's February proceeding
* if you have lots of time to wast^^ spare, get involved in ICANN at large itself and advocate that position. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yehudakatz at mailinator.com [mailto:yehudakatz at mailinator.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:45 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] Reinstate the Vote
> 
> To:
> Mr. Kieren McCarthy
> General Manager of Public Participation
> 
> Ok Kieren lets work together,
> 
> I would like the Voting mechanism reinstated,
> which that was taken away shortly after the Elections in October of 2000
> Ref.: http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr21sep00.htm
> 
> Please layout the path for us to accomplish this.
> (walk me through it)
> Which Icann list(s) need posting to?,
> Who should we contact directly?
> and How should we best approach the subject matter?
> (provide us some suggested text)
> 
> Thnx
> y
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