<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Brent, is that not basically what the DMR role is, a designated rep of an org. I may be mistaken but a DMR can be changed at any point. </div><div><br></div><div>Also as for the group of 10 to 15 percent of orgs that do not have a DMR that is a choice the respective org makes. They can set one up if they wanted to, just as they could set up a tech POC. </div><div><br></div><div>I have voted in the past and I have not voted in other arin elections. Some years candidates or issues matter to me or my company, while in other years it does not. </div><div><br></div><div>Long way of saying making more people able to vote does not increase participation. I am not in favor of this change. In fact one way to look at a 10 percent voting participation may be that 90 percent are content with how arin is, and do not feel the need to vote to change anything.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br><br></div><div><br>On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:40 PM, "Brent Sweeny" <<a href="mailto:sweeny@indiana.edu">sweeny@indiana.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p><font size="2">I applaud the goal of increasing participation in ARIN elections (and am<br>
also curious about the participation rate of DMRs from the 87% of orgs<br>
who have DMRs--among all the other statistics given, that one would have<br>
been very useful and was prominently absent), but I agree with what I<br>
think is the set of objections to the new proposal for what appears to<br>
be a sort of uncoordinated ad-hoc voting method open to<br>
intra-organization conflict.<br>
How about if the org's admin POC(s) pre-designated a subset of the org's<br>
POCs, either admin or tech, as 'candidate' voters, among whom any of<br>
them could cast the org's vote? would that, perhaps, meet the objective<br>
and help meet the concerns of objectors? just a thought.<br>
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Brent Sweeny, Indiana University<br>
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