Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re: [atlarge-panel] New panel elections?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Richard and all,

  I agree that the poll did show that the members are not happy with their
current Panel members.  Of course as I have said several times before,
that was well known well before the poll was taken.  Hence Richard is
quite right, that we need an election process to commence for new Panel
members to be elected.  We need and election process/software by
which that election can be conducted honestly.  Here is where
the rub is I believe.  We currently do not have such an election
system/software implemented and do not even own our own server
or the Domain Name for this organization presently.

  However as Judyth has pointed out these hurdles do not necessarily
impede our ability to hold and Emergency election in a fair and honest
manner.  I welcome suggestions or potential donations from
third parties through our members other contacts that may be
able and willing to assist in donating such services temporarily
for this Emergency election.

  I again warn all our members, we cannot continue to conduct
our business and the business of this fledgling organization in the
manner in which it has been to date.  We need to provide for
the following ourselves:

1.) Control and management of our Domain Name, ICANNATLARGE.ORG

2.) Our own hosting or hired hosting for our Domain to include
     any and all necessary software we deem appropriate.

3.) Funding and a funding model by which we can pay our own
     way...

Richard Henderson wrote:

> Dear Vittorio, Jefsey, Bruce, and all panelists
>
> I am inflexible in demanding that the wishes of the membership are
> implemented.
>
> I think you are intelligent enough to understand that if we ran a formal
> vote on these same questions, the result would not be much different to the
> findings of the 171 who participated in last week's informal poll.
>
> They want more polls like that (even if more formally sanctioned); they want
> the power to ask and answer questions that define our policies; they want a
> new panel election; they don't want ICANN's At Large structure.
>
> Here in UK we have Tony Blair leading this country into war against Iraq,
> even if the UN does not support it. And yet British public opinion has
> become even more hostile to this. A week ago the Mirror Poll showed 84%
> opposed to war on Iraq. Tonight the Times Poll shows 90% opposed to war on
> Iraq.
>
> I do not want our "bottom up" organisation to become like that.
>
> I am not interested in leaders who defy the people.
>
> I am interested in using technology to define members' wishes. And then the
> elected panel is merely the "implementer" of the members' will.
>
> I agree with Jefsey that we can introduce more safeguards and processes into
> the Polling Booth : but in the end, I see the Poll as being the means of
> defining and developing policy, which becomes the "command" to the panel.
>
> The members - through the Poll - should rule the panel and be the leaders.
>
> The Panel should just be the "workers" and "servants" who get things done in
> obedience to the members.
>
> And so we turn conventional paternalistic politics on its head. We
> demonstrate "bottom up" instead of "top down".
>
> This way, we demonstrate the very lesson we want ICANN to learn.
>
> yrs in friendship,
>
> Richard H
>
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Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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