[arin-discuss] ARIN Consultation: Changing the Voter Eligibility for ARIN Member Organizations

[ARIN]

Thanks to everyone who participated thus far in the voter eligibility 
consultation. Before we close the consultation on Tuesday, we wanted to 
review the discussion to date. We appreciate your valuable feedback.

The proposed change to voter eligibility was mainly aimed to increase 
eligibility, and thus number of votes cast, by allowing those Members 
without a valid Designated Member Representative (DMR) on file to have 
someone vote. While ARIN does typically have good voter turnout (as 
compared to other associations), the change was proposed to remove the 
task of managing the DMR contact that may have been an impediment to 
some organizations voting.

There were a number of responses put forth during the consultation:

Some of you warned ARIN of unintended consequences of such a procedural 
change including security issues, increased costs, and that "many 
persons [with] one vote only creates more problems".

There were also ideas presented for an alternate approach including 
allowing the Admin POC to easily designate which POC should be allowed 
to cast their organizations one vote. This approach could potentially 
eliminate the need for organizations to have a separate POC to maintain 
(DMR) and more easily allow organizations to vote that don't meet the 
existing DMR email criteria:

  * Not be that of a role account (info@, hostmaster@, support@)
  * Must contain a person's name or initials (joesmith@, joes @, js@)
  * Have a domain matching the Organization or DBA name that ARIN has on
    file

Considering the voices of opposition to the proposed change thus far, it 
appears prudent at this time to maintain existing practices with respect 
to Designated Member Representatives for voting.We also would encourage 
further discussion on the requirements for DMR contacts and automation 
of their management at the upcoming ARIN 31 meeting in Bridgetown, 
Barbados on 21-24 April 2013.


Be sure to send any final comments to this list by end of day Tuesday 
12 February.

Regards,

/John

John Curran

President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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