RE: [registrars] SiteFinder Ballot

["Elana Broitman" <ebroitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please see the ICANN site for my note to Paul - it provides information regarding the % of the vote, indicating that it was supported by the vast majority of eligible votes, with no negative votes.

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/broitman-to-twomey-01oct03.htm

Elana Broitman
Register.com
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New York, NY 10018
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-----Original Message-----
From: ross@xxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:30 AM
To: Michael D. Palage
Cc: registrars@xxxxxxxx; Paul Twomey
Subject: Re: [registrars] SiteFinder Ballot


On 10/1/2003 10:14 PM Michael D. Palage noted that:

>  what Option would give you the highest level of confidence in
> assessing the consensus of the registrars constituency.

As long as we are discussing the consensus of the constituency 
membership, then we should provide as much information as we possibly 
can. This might appear to be a subtle point, but it really goes to the 
heart of what makes us a constituency. In the past (and certainly not 
coming from you) when the vote didn't support someone's agenda, it was 
quickly claimed that it was non-representative because it didn't include 
a majority of market share or a majority of *all* registrars. We have 
never claimed to represent a majority of all registrars and market share 
based determinations can't adequately demonstrate the broad range of 
interests of our members. To be blunt, these tactics have been typically 
used to mute our voice within the process.

We explicitly codify "one member, one vote" in our bylaws - I would 
strongly urge us to continue to uphold this principle. Bruce has made a 
suggestion that furthers this goal, as have others offlist. I'm happy 
with any of the options as long as it doesn't place a higher value on 
Register.com's or Tucows' vote than it does on 007Names' or Domainbank's 
solely because of market share considerations - we all have an equal voice.

Thanks for the followup.

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                        -rwr