Re: [ICANN-EU] what is a member?

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>]

Vittorio,

I have asked this to Andrew, who pointed me to the FAQ, where it says that 
your approach is the good one. 2% of the (yet unknown) number of activated 
members at the deadline.

Roberto


>From: Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>
>To: gregcrew@icann.org
>CC: icann-europe@fitug.de, ajm@icann.org
>Subject: [ICANN-EU] what is a member?
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:21:53 +0200
>
>Dear Greg,
>
>I am an ICANN candidate and I have a question. Sorry if it has already
>been asked - I could not find the answer anywhere.
>
>ICANN deliberation from Yokohama says that candidates have to get
>"support from 2% of the At Large Members in her/his geographic
>region". But how is the number of members defined?
>
>It seems unreasonable to me to count as "At Large Members" in Europe
>all the 35942 unverified applications, since many of them will be or
>have already been discarded. I.e. I know of a person who, having
>repeatedly tried to register when the server was malfunctioning, got
>two E-mails with two different membership numbers and passwords, but
>only one PIN - guess that one of the two accounts was discarded in the
>verification process. I don't know whether you are able to measure the
>number of "verified applications", that could be defined as those
>applications for which a PIN has been sent out, and for which you have
>checked that there are no duplicates or clearly meaningless personal
>data (I don't know, for example, if you care about returned physical
>or electronic mail due to non-existing addresses). I'm sure that they
>are less than 35942 (can you provide a number?).
>
>However, I think that the best number on which calculate the 2%
>threshold would be the number of activated accounts at the end of the
>last day (Aug 31st). Currently your site shows about 14000 active
>accounts, which would mean a threshold of about 280 endorsements in
>Europe, though that number will grow in the next days.
>
>What is ICANN's position on this?
>
>Regards,
>
>--
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>Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
>Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology

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