[FYI] Internet Board Agrees to Overhaul Election Plan

["Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/cyber/articles/11domain.html

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March 10, 2000

Internet Board Agrees to Overhaul Election Plan  

By JERI CLAUSING   

AIRO -- One day after a sometimes heated and tense public forum, the 
international organization that administers the Internet on Friday 
bowed to demands that it overhaul an unpopular plan for electing new 
board members who will represent the world's individual computer 
users.  

[...]

The new plan calls for individual Internet users -- essentially 
anyone over 16 with an e-mail and postal address -- to elect five 
board members in a direct election before Nov. 1, instead of the 
original plan to have the same users select an electoral council, 
which in turn would have selected all nine at-large members by Sept. 
30.  

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