[governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial period

[Kerry Brown]

> Canadian registrants get non-democratic governance, and they may or may
> not get the efficiency.  (The attainment of efficiency is beside the point)
> 

CIRA's board of directors is democratically elected by CIRA members. Membership is free to anyone that registers a dot-ca domain. All members get one vote regardless of how many domains they have registered. There are three ex-officio non-voting appointed directors. All voting directors are elected by the members. One of the ex-officio directors is a representative of Industry Canada. The Canadian government through Industry Canada plays an advisory role to the board. The other non-voting directors are the CEO and John Demco the founder of the dot-ca registry when it was operated by volunteers working at UBC.

We have drifted way off the topic. I'm happy to talk about CIRA but we should start a new topic if you want to continue this discussion.

Kerry Brown

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