ccTLD Constituency of the DNSO

Complete Record for the Election of ccTLD Representatives to the DNSO Names Council  27 October 2000

According to the Principle from the meeting in Berlin (March 2000), the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of ccTLD Constituency request that all ccTLD Registries elect three representatives to the DNSO Names Council. Together with this Principle, the AdCom approved to use the election process proposed by George Daniel (.ag), Patrick O'Brien (.nz), and Willie Black (.uk).

The current Names Council Members, which have one-year term, have expired in August. The new three elected Names Council Members will serve for a two-year term.

This election is separated into two parts:

  1. The Regional Elections: Each region elects one candidate from the list of nominees within its own region. There are no specific qualifications required of any candidate, except residency in that region. At the end of this Regional Elections there will be five candidates.
  2. Global Election: All ccTLD registries elect three Names Council from five candidates produced in the Regional Elections.

With regard to geographic diversity rules, the ccTLD Constituency members shall determine their "ICANN regional affiliation", as described in the ICANN Bylaws http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm . Their physical geographical region as recorded in any standard world atlas generally defines this affiliation. However, when a corresponding territory is situated between two or more ICANN regions, the ccTLD Registry may self-select its adherence to any but only one of them two week prior to the Regional Elections.

As used herein, each of the following shall be defined as a "Geographical Region": 

1. Europe
2. Asia-Australia-Pacific
3. Latin America-Caribbean
4. Africa
5. North America

Chronological record of the election process is as follow:

  1. 3 August 2000, the Secretariat sent emails to all 242 ccTLD registries to update IANA database and to self-select regions for NC voting purpose.  There were 89 returned emails.
  2. AdCom announced the selection of Independent teller for this election, Kent Crispin.
  3. On September 11, 2000, the Secretariat sent out a Call for Nominations by region
    nominations/2000.CallForNominations.html. Duration: 11-24 September 2000.

    Each region may nominate the candidates from within the region.
  4. At the end of Nomination period, there was only one candidate from Latin America Region.  Chairman of AdCom announced the extension of the nomination period to 30 September or until we get 5 candidates.

On 30 September 2000, power outage occurred at AFNIC where the wwtld.org server was located.  The server was back to normal on Monday 2 September.  The Secretariat had to extend the Nomination period one more time to 4 October at 12:00 UTC.

After deadline of 4 October at 12:00 UTC, there were two candidates that did not qualify
a) Stafford Guest – one of the nominations sent in late by forty minutes.
b) Nigel Roberts – sent in his acceptance late as well as one of the nominations by almost one hour.
The Secretariat had consulted AdCom and decided to allow both to enter the race.

Here are the candidates for each region:
Asia Pacific: Stafford Guest
Latin America: Oscar Robles
North America: Peter de Blanc
Africa: Yann Kwok
Europe: Elisabeth Porteneuve & Nigel Roberts

Archives for Nominations and Acceptances: nominations/vol01/

  1. 5 – 11 October 2000 Call for the REGIONAL Election

For each region independently, the ccTLD Registries from each region will vote for their candidate. The candidate having the most votes within its own region is selected to represent that region. All five regions hold the elections concurrently.

Each ccTLD Registry is allowed to one vote, the full identity of voting Delegates is recorded in the voting registry.

4 October, Kent Crispin sent out Regional Vote Explanation

11 October, Kent Crispin announced the Regional Election Result.   Elisabeth wins over Nigel for Europe region.

      6.   12 - 25 October 2000  Call for the GLOBAL Election

All ccTLD Registries vote for three Names Coucil representatives from the set produced in the REGIONAL Election.  Each ccTLD Registry gets to place three votes or less in the ballot.

The situation developed when the Secretariat sent out a reminder on 18 Oct.  The issue is whether each voter must vote for “exactly three” candidates or vote for “three or less”.  In the election proposal, it said each voter must vote for exactly three candidates.  But in the voting procedures, it said each ccTLD Registry is allowed three votes, one per candidate.  The Secretariat had consulted AdCom and decided that the voters could not be forced to vote exactly three candidates.  The announcement to inform the voters of the decision was sent out on 20 Oct.

       7.  The Results

26 Oct. Kent Crispin submitted the Global Election Result with explanations to Secretariat.

26 Oct. Secretariat has consulted AdCom members over emails and they approved:
                  Patricio Poblete
                   Peter de Blanc
                   Antony van Couvering

27 Oct. The Global Election Result is announced.
                   Peter de Blanc, Elisabeth Porteneuve, and Oscar Robles will serve as DNSO Names Council for two years.

   8.  Records of all Global ballots known to each voting registry.
                          The list of ballots

9.        Official announcement sent to Mike Roberts, President and CEO of ICANN, 29 October 2000.

10.    Offical announcement sent to the DNSO Names Council members by Patricio Poblete on 29 October 2000

 

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