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<div>As noted earlier, it difficult to determine reliably, but our best estimate is that somewhere between 1000 and 1200 of our present 7542 general member
<div>organizations have voted in one of three previous elections.<br>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">John Curran</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Oct 29, 2021, at 2:36 PM, Andrew Dul <andrew.dul@quark.net> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>On 10/29/2021 7:38 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > The reason for inclusion of this language is because we do not know</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > what the long-term general member count will be and felt that a modest</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > floor was a reasonable precaution. While we’re making it possible for</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > more than 7000 end-user organizations to now also become general</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > members and participate in the election, we may see some attrition of</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > existing general members population (i.e. those who don’t tend to vote</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> > in ARIN’s elections.)</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I asked how many end-user organizations were potentially new members, and</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>this tells me 7000. And previously we've had ~600 ISP members involved in</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>things.</span><br>
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<span>Given the adoption of the structure as proposed, how many current general-members would have been demoted to service members in 2021 because they did not vote in 2020, 2019, & 2018?</span><br>
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<span>Thanks,</span><br>
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<span>Andrew</span><br>
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