<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 8, 2013, at 13:20 , ARIN <<a href="mailto:info@arin.net">info@arin.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<meta name="Title" content=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">There were a
number of responses put
forth during the consultation:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">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”.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I would summarize that as "many persons [sharing] one vote..."</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">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. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Not
be that of a role account (info@, hostmaster@, support@)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Must
contain a person's name or initials (joesmith@, joes @, js@)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Have
a domain matching the Organization or DBA name that ARIN has
on file</span></li></ul></div></blockquote><div><br></div>This last one is consistently problematic, esp. for consultants who often don't have an email address affiliated with</div><div>the ORG in question and even more often would prefer to maintain a single login for all of their DMR activities</div><div>with a single associated email address.</div><div><br></div><div>I know it is relatively common for ARIN to end up putting special waivers in place to address this particular issue,</div><div>so I would suggest having a documented non-exceptional mechanism for addressing that reality is well worth the</div><div>effort.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>