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Internet Board Agrees to Overhaul Election Plan

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

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.

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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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