[atlarge-discuss] Re: Open call to join

["Jkhan" <Jkhan@MetroMgr.com>]

>Isn't Richard right to poll the "members"  on the major Structure and 
>Policy questions first?

Yes I agree, finding out what "major Structure and Policy" form/shape of
the Organization, the membership is intrested in, by way of a Poll(s)
can be democratic and a bit less messy.

??? What will be the policy for submitting our questions/issues for the
Polls (Where/Who do we send them to) ???

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:13 PM
To: J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin; Richard Henderson
Cc: bruce@barelyadequate.info; DannyYounger@cs.com;
atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de; atlarge-panel@lists.fitug.de
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re: [ga] Open call to join


At 04:05 a.m. 1/01/2003, J-F C. (Jefsey)  Morfin wrote:

>Joop, your polling booth has always been a pain because of the need to
>remember an ID/password.


This can be helped by making a "reminder" message w. login and PW 
obligatory for every Poll.

>Could you just not find a way to have the passwords in the URL, a maiol

>sent to the voters and the mail  repeated several times so we could
only 
>click on the link, either to vote or to know the status of the vote.

That shouldn't be too difficult to do.
But we would have to be careful not to leave openings for technical
abuse.

>Also that all the running votes are displayed in the same page, to keep
it 
>simple.

Agree.

>I also suggest that you establish a "vote@large" organization under any

>cheap be serious law where at large voters could elect four other
polling 
>officers sharing your access to the boot data and certifying the votes.
>
>My feeling is that the boot failed until now because you cannot really 
>adapt it to practical experience and because you wanted to integrate it

>into a formal structure.

Yes. What I hoped was that the IDNO would prove the value of such an 
actually functioning integrated political representation system in a 
virtual meeting environment.  The hope was that participating in the
IDNO 
would produce actual representatives that could actually have some
weight 
in the Names Council and so give a purpose to the whole effort.
The continual stonewalling by ICANN combined with the internal sabotage 
made it too discouraging  to continue on that road. But now the 
www.idno.org  website has been killed, the effort from the old site 
www.democracy.org.nz  can always be revived

>As a stand alone formal and a neutral service it has chances to fly and

>develop. Is there no way for you to make what I call for three years :
to 
>get a programmer on it and to make it a real professional and possibly 
>commercial poll and voting multi-lingual system?

This is a sensible suggestion and worth listening to.

  I will gladly help in this way too. Even imperfect as it is now, the 
Booth can fulfill a useful role in building icannatlarge.
There is no inherent conflict of interest between a commercial voting 
administrator and the principles of Democracy. Rather the contrary :-).

But you still need a unique Charter/Bylaws/Constitution  for the Atlarge

Network Hub that the icannatlarge.org should evolve into.
Who do you trust to write it?

Isn't Richard right to poll the "members"  on the major  Structure and 
Policy questions first?

-joop-


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