Regarding the voting of Members to the ASO of ICANN
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:26:01 +0200
- Organization: Registry Telia Net
Dear fellow members,
We write this mail because of the latest developments regarding
the nomination and voting of three members from the RIPE
community to the ICANN ASO.
During the RIPE 34:th meeting there was a point on the agenda
for the Plenary Session, 6.b - Selection of 3 Address Council
Members. Here three candidates where supposed to be choosen
by the membership from 8 nominees.
And here is the problem.
Every nominee had to fullfill the demands that was expected from
them. By active participation in the ICANN ASO process and to work
for the RIPE communitys best.
Those who accepted their nomination was also fully aware that
no financial support would come from either ICANN or RIPE.
During that meeting there was a change in the openess and
fairness of the process. The meeting took a number of descisions
regarding selection criteria among the nominees, among one was
that the nominee was to participate in person to be able to
be elected.
It is our view that selection criteria among nominees
is something that have to be public beforehand, and especially
known by all nominated persons. Selection criteria is something
a nomination commitee work with, election is something a group
of people do among a number of nominees -- normally outcome
from a nomination comittee. During this nomination process
there were no information that the nominated person had to be
present at the election.
This way to handle the voting for representatives to the ASO
is not done in the openess and fairness that we all expect
from the whole ICANN process.
By doing this the sitiuation could arise that some who nominated
himself, and only by himself, would have had a bigger chance to
have a seat in the ASO than someone that was supported by many
but at that moment where not able to attend the meeting.
Because of the tight time limit, the reason to not attend the
meeting could be anything from not be able to leave their
work with such a short notice, to a simple thing as sickness.
This also shows a lack in the way that the voting proceedure
is performed within RIPE and the membership.
We are fully aware that there is a deadline that ICANN has set up
that all RIRs and their membership has to follow. But this
solution is not done in the best spirit of the Internet.
All the ASO representatives should attend all RIPE meetings in
order to get input from the RIPE community. And we fully support
Sabine Jaume, Hans Petter Holen and Wilfried Woeber. We also wish
them good luck in their work. But we only want to make all the
members aware of this issue and next time create a process
that is more fair. And to follow the voting proceedings that should
apply in a important issue like this.
Best Regards
Per Lundberg Sonera (se.sonera)
Amar Andersson Telia Net (se.telianet)
Hans Niklasson Tele2 (se.swipnet)
Maria Nilsson Telenordia (se.telenordia)
Patrik Fältström
