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Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:16 AM
Subject: Amusing Internet voting irony..
>
>This is from today's New York Times online. It seems that ICANN, the
>new Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is to
>preside over the Internet domain name service (DNS) among other things,
>is having an Internet-based election of its new members. But the election
>was halted because of "unknown" technical problems. This among world-class
>Internet technology experts! And there are only a total of a few dozens
>of votes involved!
>
>Enjoy,
>David
>----------------
> Internet Board Election Is Delayed
>
> By JERI CLAUSING
>
> WASHINGTON -- The first effort to build an elected
> body to handle the administration of the Internet was
> stalled on Friday when technical problems delayed voting for
> the first three elected seats on the Internet's new governing
> board.
>
> With a Mexican academic and a Spanish
> law professor clinching the first two seats,
> voting on Friday had narrowed the
> candidates for third seat elected seat on
> the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names and Numbers (ICANN) to three
> North Americans and a New Zealander.
> But technical problems delayed final
> action until Monday, participants in the
> election said.
>
> When voting was suspended, Jonathan
> Cohen, a Canadian trademark lawyer, led
> with six votes. Peter Dengate-Thrush, a
> trademark lawyer from New Zealand, was
> second with five votes.
>
> Rick White, a former Congressman from Seattle, and Don
> Telage, an executive with Network Solutions Inc., were tied
> with three votes each. And Nii Quaynor, a computer scientist
> from Ghana, had two votes, apparently eliminating him from
> the next round.
>
> The elections are being conducted by a 19-member council
> of ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization, which
> is one three groups that will be electing three members each
> to the board of ICANN.
>
> Officials coordinating the election Friday said they had not
> determined the cause of the problems that were hampering a
> final tally of the votes, which were being cast over the
> Internet by the far-flung council members.
>
> Those participating in the final round of elections Friday
> morning said it was unclear when the technical problems
> began and whether voting on Monday would start from the
> beginning or resume with the field that had apparently been
> narrowed to Cohen, Dengate-Thrush, White and Telage.
>
> To win the final seat, one of the candidates has to gain
> support from 10 of the 19 names council members.
>
> Alejandro Pisanty, director of computing academic services
> at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico
> City, won the first round of voting earlier this week for a
> three-year term.
>
> Amadeu Abril i Abril, a law professor at Ramon Llull
> University in Barceloan, Spain, was elected to a two-year
> term on the board during the second stage of the Domain
> Name Supporting Organization's election of its three seats.
>
> The seat not yet filled is for a
> one-year term to the board.
>
> The final round is limited to
> representatives from North
> America, Africa or the
> Asia-Pacific region, as the
> council is not allowed to have
> more than one board member
> from each of the world's
> geographic regions.
>
> Should Dengate-Thrush be
> elected, that would mean the
> DNSO would have no voice
> from North America.
>
> The DNSO represents the Internet's business and non-profit
> organizations. The other two formal supporting
> organizations, the Address Supporting Organization and the
> Protocal Supporting Organization, represent Internet service
> providers and other technical concerns. Those groups will
> also hold elections before ICANN's next board meeting, to
> be held in Los Angeles next month.
>
> ICANN was selected by the United States Department of
> Commerce last year to take over administration of the
> Internet's addressing, or so-called Domain Name System.
> One of its first charges was to break the
> government-sanction monopoly that Network Solutions,
> based in Herndon, Va., has held on the lucrative business of
> registering Internet addresses in the popular domains of
> .com, .net and .org.
>
> ICANN, a nonprofit organization, is currently run by a
> 10-member interim board that was appointed by a small
> group of Internet founders. Those board members will serve
> with the newly elected members but will be replaced next
> year when a general assembly is formed to elect nine at-large
> board members to what ultimately will be an 18-member
> elected board.
>
> All but one of the candidates in this first election, Rick
> White, have been deeply involved in the contentious process
> that created ICANN. While trademark groups that have been
> backing ICANN's efforts to put in place uniform rules for
> cracking down on cybersquatters favor Cohen's candidacy,
> companies like AT&T were backing White because of his
> background as a consensus-builder and Internet-friendly
> lawmaker who worked to keep government from imposing
> onerous new regulations on electronic commerce.
>