[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 04/01/2011, at 7:39 PM, Deirdre Williams wrote:

> The intention of my comment at least was not that I found the term itself offensive, but that in the context that was used (see above) the suggestion appeared to be that "lurkers" were undesirable and should be removed from the list of subscribers - since they were included in a list with "duplicate subscriptions" and "defunct accounts". Also that "lurkers", by definition, were not members. Since these views seem to disagree fundamentally with my understanding of the way the Internet Governance Caucus is supposed to work I felt that it was necessary to challenge them.
> I apologise in turn if I misunderstood your intention. :-)

No problem.  I intended to convey that every year it is necessary to separate the lurkers from the voters, in order to create the list of voter-members that the charter requires.  Until now, this has been labour-intensive and error-prone.  The new infrastructure I'm putting in place will make it faster and easier.

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Jeremy Malcolm
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