Re: [ga] significant user representation

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:41 p.m. 8/09/2006, you wrote:


> At 09:12 AM 9/7/2006, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> > The original 143.806 individuals (the original ICANN At Large "members") 
> > interested to vote for their own ICANN director, especially in North 
> > America and Europe were a large enough group of registrants to form a 
> > hard-to-capture and representative sample.
>
>
> How did you determine that there were 143,806 members of this
> constituency?

It is recorded history.
http://www.icann.org/at-large/final-report-05nov01.htm

They were self-selected by their knowledge of ICANN, mostly, I think, 
because they had registered domains.

ICANN sent out letters to the postal addresses of those who registered 
on-line as "members" and these letters enabled people to cast their vote.
Stacks of  undeliverable letters were returned to the ICANN office in 
Marina del Rey. ICANN acknowledged the numbers.

Please search the online archives and  find out how many people actually 
were able to vote, how the votes were drummed up for the different 
candidates and how representative of their voters the elected directors 
turned out to be.

You will find a history full of valuable lessons.


--Joop--

www.icannatlarge.com