RE: [ICANN-EU] [Q&A] the exciting adventures of a nominee

["Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com>]

Joop:

There's no mistake.  You are a resident of Asia/Pacific.  Voting is defined
by residency.  Therefore you fall within Asia/Pacific for purposes of
voting.  Candidacy is defined by citizenship.  Therefore, you fall within
Europe for purposes of candidacy.

This cannot be news to you -- this structure has been discussed and debated
since the very first ICANN meeting in Singapore.  You should review the
various multimedia meeting archives, where you will find lots of discussion
of this odd structure.  The Bylaws, representing an essential element of the
underlying ICANN compromises from 1998, required that at least one Director
be a citizen of each geographic region.  Citizenship is the test for
Directors, therefore citizenship must be the test for candidates & nominees.
However, ICANN does not have the capacity (with our one At Large staff
person) to verify citizenship of individual At Large members.  Therefore,
the mailing address used for the PIN letters provides the basis for regional
assignment of members.

Is that a clear explanation?

Best regards,

--Andrew


[ -----Original Message-----
[ From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
[ Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:59 PM
[ To: mclaughlin@pobox.com; Griffini Giorgio
[ Cc: icann-europe@fitug.de; Jeanette Hofmann
[ Subject: RE: [ICANN-EU] [Q&A] the exciting adventures of a nominee
[ 
[ 
[ Andrew,
[ 
[ You know that I have protested, lastly in Yokohama, about the
[ discrimination against expatriates, due to the silly citizenship rules.
[ 
[ These rules create in fact a new "constituency", that of expatriate
[ European and North American members.
[ 
[ Now I find out that I can only support European candidates (fine, no
[ problem, I'll get used to it) BUT I CANNOT ASK THEM QUESTIONS THROUGH THE
[ NEW WEB INTERFACE.
[ 
[ Upon login, I am forced into the Asia/Pacific area, where I am resident.
[ 
[ Could you please fix this anomalous segregation and let this list 
[ know when
[ it is fixed?
[ 
[ 
[ 
[ 
[ --Joop--
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