[arin-discuss] ARIN Election Processes and Email Campaigning

Tue Oct 16 16:06:15 EDT 2018

I think I agree.  If this was something ARIN did on behalf of the 
candidates, with short descriptions that are similar for each candidate, 
that'd be acceptable to most POCs.  Of course, if ARIN were sending it 
out on their behalf, would it be up to ARIN to validate the descriptions 
for each (i.e. claims of experience etc)?

Either way, I think that a short bio for each candidate, with a link to 
read more about them for each voter to do their own research would be 
beneficial... much more beneficial than the multiple reminder emails 
from ARIN to vote.

Thanks,
Matt

On 2018-10-16 16:02, Jawaid Bazyar wrote:
> How about send an email with short bios of candidates, and links to
> pages with more info. And have same on the ARIN web site.
> 
> On 10/16/2018 01:57 PM, Patrick Laughton wrote:
> 
>> I skimmed the candidate profiles right after voting opened, but
>> hadn’t gotten around to voting until after the controversy
>> started. To be honest, I was dead set to vote against any candidate
>> who emailed me when I got back to it, but damned if they weren’t
>> well-qualified and seemed like a right choice, other than mildly
>> irking me with an unsolicited email.
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> FROM: ARIN-discuss <arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net> ON BEHALF OF Paul
>> Timmins
>> SENT: October 16, 2018 13:48
>> TO: arin-discuss at arin.net
>> SUBJECT: Re: [arin-discuss] ARIN Election Processes and Email
>> Campaigning
>> 
>> I'm in favor of making the voting contacts available to the
>> campaigns, with an opt out for those who are truly bothered. I would
>> appreciate hearing from candidates, it might actually motivate me to
>> research them and actually cast a vote. Whatever we have now doesn't
>> reach me usefully and I'd basically be picking candidates based on
>> name familiarity and coin flips otherwise. Might even be more
>> effective than leaving voicemails on my cell phone to vote for
>> people I've never heard of.
>> 
>> -Paul
>> 
>> On 10/16/2018 03:13 PM, Robby Wright wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe giving each candidate a single email blast to present
>> themselves would reduce the mess. Then restrict all other campaign
>> usage. The campaign materials could be combined into a smaller
>> number of emails. I have to admit it would be nice to know who I am
>> voting for.
>> 
>> Robby Wright
>> 
>> Chief Architect and Consultant
>> 
>> Abtech Technologies, Inc.
>> 
>> 760-827-5141
>> 
>> FROM: ARIN-discuss <arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net> ON BEHALF OF Rick
>> Ewart
>> SENT: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 11:37 AM
>> TO: John Curran <jcurran at arin.net>; Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
>> CC: arin-discuss at arin.net
>> SUBJECT: Re: [arin-discuss] ARIN Election Processes and Email
>> Campaigning
>> 
>> Hi All.
>> 
>> Seems to me that just doing a prohibition on using the mailing list
>> for campaigning purposes would solve the direct issue.
>> 
>> As to Whois information and such, my 2 cents is that there is no
>> real need to touch/attack that. That information is public info that
>> doesn’t have an opt-in/opt-out process and thus is no different
>> than if some company looked it up to spam someone for any reason. If
>> a candidate feels it would help them (some might say it would hurt
>> them), then so be it.
>> 
>> But then again, I wasn’t upset to begin with so….. :P
>> 
>> Take care,
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> Rick Ewart, CPA, CISSP, CAMS
>> 
>> Ewart Technologies, Inc.
>> 
>> 15751 Sheridan St, #160
>> 
>> Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33331
>> 
>> rick at ewart.net
>> 
>> FROM: ARIN-discuss [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] ON BEHALF
>> OF John Curran
>> SENT: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 2:24 PM
>> TO: Owen DeLong
>> CC: arin-discuss at arin.net
>> SUBJECT: [arin-discuss] ARIN Election Processes and Email
>> Campaigning
>> IMPORTANCE: High
>> 
>> On 16 Oct 2018, at 8:06 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps we should disallow election spam rather than changing the
>> opt-in/opt-out policy for arin-discuss.
>> 
>> Owen - You have perfect timing, as I was about to send a message to
>> reopen this discussion…
>> 
>> Folks -
>> 
>> Last week, while our election was underway, I sent the following to
>> arin-discuss:  "Once this election is complete, we can then enjoy a
>> discussion of whether any changes to our Whois terms of use (or our
>> election processes in general) is warranted in this regard. "
>> 
>> I will note that ARIN’s 2018 election is complete –
>> https://www.arin.net/announcements/2018/20181015.html [2]
>> 
>> I’d like to congratulate all of those elected, and thank everyone
>> who ran for the ARIN Board, ARIN AC, or the NRO NC.
>> 
>> With this election complete, it’s now timely to discuss the matter
>> of campaign emails.  As many of you are aware, ARIN is required to
>> provide the list of organizations that are eligible to vote in each
>> election, and while we do not include email addresses in that list,
>> each year we have several folks up for election who send emails to
>> the electorate asking for their support.
>> 
>> ARIN’s stance on this has historically been that those people who
>> receive the emails asking for support are in the best position to
>> weigh the merits of each candidate and their email practices, and
>> thus we do not specifically encourage or prohibit such
>> communications in the election processes.  Similarly, ARIN’s terms
>> of use for its ARIN Whois service does not specifically prohibit use
>> of Whois data for election outreach purposes, and it is apparent
>> that some candidates are using ARIN Whois to obtain related email
>> addressed for their campaigning.
>> 
>> It would be good to discuss ARIN’s current stance on this issue,
>> in order to inform the ARIN Board in their consideration if any
>> change is warranted.
>> 
>> To the end, please comment on the question:  “Should ARIN’s
>> election processes prohibit bulk campaign email  to the electorate,
>> or is the present approach suitable as-is?”
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> /John
>> 
>> John Curran
>> 
>> President and CEO
>> 
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers
>> 
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