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- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:58:03 -0700
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    Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:16 AM
    Subject: Amusing Internet voting irony..

    >
    >This is from today's New York Times online.  It seems that ICANN, the
    >new Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is to
    >preside over the Internet domain name service (DNS) among other things,
    >is having an Internet-based election of its new members.  But the election
    >was halted because of "unknown" technical problems.  This among world-class
    >Internet technology experts!  And there are only a total of a few dozens
    >of votes involved!
    >
    >Enjoy,
    >David
    >----------------
    >        Internet Board Election Is Delayed
    >
    >        By JERI CLAUSING
    >
    >        WASHINGTON -- The first effort to build an elected
    >        body to handle the administration of the Internet was
    >        stalled on Friday when technical problems delayed voting for
    >        the first three elected seats on the Internet's new governing
    >        board.
    >
    >        With a Mexican academic and a Spanish
    >        law professor clinching the first two seats,
    >        voting on Friday had narrowed the
    >        candidates for third seat elected seat on
    >        the Internet Corporation for Assigned
    >        Names and Numbers (ICANN) to three
    >        North Americans and a New Zealander.
    >        But technical problems delayed final
    >        action until Monday, participants in the
    >        election said.
    >
    >        When voting was suspended, Jonathan
    >        Cohen, a Canadian trademark lawyer, led
    >        with six votes. Peter Dengate-Thrush, a
    >        trademark lawyer from New Zealand, was
    >        second with five votes.
    >
    >        Rick White, a former Congressman from Seattle, and Don
    >        Telage, an executive with Network Solutions Inc., were tied
    >        with three votes each. And Nii Quaynor, a computer scientist
    >        from Ghana, had two votes, apparently eliminating him from
    >        the next round.
    >
    >        The elections are being conducted by a 19-member council
    >        of ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization, which
    >        is one three groups that will be electing three members each
    >        to the board of ICANN.
    >
    >        Officials coordinating the election Friday said they had not
    >        determined the cause of the problems that were hampering a
    >        final tally of the votes, which were being cast over the
    >        Internet by the far-flung council members.
    >
    >        Those participating in the final round of elections Friday
    >        morning said it was unclear when the technical problems
    >        began and whether voting on Monday would start from the
    >        beginning or resume with the field that had apparently been
    >        narrowed to Cohen, Dengate-Thrush, White and Telage.
    >
    >        To win the final seat, one of the candidates has to gain
    >        support from 10 of the 19 names council members.
    >
    >        Alejandro Pisanty, director of computing academic services
    >        at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico
    >        City, won the first round of voting earlier this week for a
    >        three-year term.
    >
    >        Amadeu Abril i Abril, a law professor at Ramon Llull
    >        University in Barceloan, Spain, was elected to a two-year
    >        term on the board during the second stage of the Domain
    >        Name Supporting Organization's election of its three seats.
    >
    >                           The seat not yet filled is for a
    >                           one-year term to the board.
    >
    >                           The final round is limited to
    >                           representatives from North
    >                           America, Africa or the
    >                           Asia-Pacific region, as the
    >                           council is not allowed to have
    >                           more than one board member
    >                           from each of the world's
    >                           geographic regions.
    >
    >                           Should Dengate-Thrush be
    >                           elected, that would mean the
    >                           DNSO would have no voice
    >                           from North America.
    >
    >        The DNSO represents the Internet's business and non-profit
    >        organizations. The other two formal supporting
    >        organizations, the Address Supporting Organization and the
    >        Protocal Supporting Organization, represent Internet service
    >        providers and other technical concerns. Those groups will
    >        also hold elections before ICANN's next board meeting, to
    >        be held in Los Angeles next month.
    >
    >        ICANN was selected by the United States Department of
    >        Commerce last year to take over administration of the
    >        Internet's addressing, or so-called Domain Name System.
    >        One of its first charges was to break the
    >        government-sanction monopoly that Network Solutions,
    >        based in Herndon, Va., has held on the lucrative business of
    >        registering Internet addresses in the popular domains of
    >        .com, .net and .org.
    >
    >        ICANN, a nonprofit organization, is currently run by a
    >        10-member interim board that was appointed by a small
    >        group of Internet founders. Those board members will serve
    >        with the newly elected members but will be replaced next
    >        year when a general assembly is formed to elect nine at-large
    >        board members to what ultimately will be an 18-member
    >        elected board.
    >
    >        All but one of the candidates in this first election, Rick
    >        White, have been deeply involved in the contentious process
    >        that created ICANN. While trademark groups that have been
    >        backing ICANN's efforts to put in place uniform rules for
    >        cracking down on cybersquatters favor Cohen's candidacy,
    >        companies like AT&T were backing White because of his
    >        background as a consensus-builder and Internet-friendly
    >        lawmaker who worked to keep government from imposing
    >        onerous new regulations on electronic commerce.
    >

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