Re: [ga] Attack on the At-Large

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And the ISOC procedures page for how its Board of Trustees are selected (I don't really like to use the term voting here)...

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/select.shtml

and here for how individual members may vote (if in the $75 category):

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/elections.shtml

Note, though, this *great* democratic institution... "The Nominating Committee" (ever heard of that somewhere else?):

"The Nominating Committee will notify the voting members of the Society of the names of individuals nominated by the committee for election."

So I suppose ISOC (who constitute the majority of ALAC at ICANN) could be said to be a closed shop, where a limited number of Trustee posts are allocated (at the discretion of the established Board to Individual Members to vote on) and then the Individual members are "notified" who they may vote for, and then only if they are in the $75 category, not the free category.

So...

How does ALAC prove it actually represents anyone other than the ISOC nominating committee? Or rather, the ISOC establishment which has a built-in majority on the Board anyway, always able to outvote the Individual Member category of Trustee, the number of which is also decided by the Board?

How does an individual user get to determine who they themselves would like to represent them, either at ISOC or at ALAC, if they can only vote for people they are told to vote for?

And why this strategic policy to control who may or may not represent Internet Users?

Yrs,

Richard Henderson