[ppml] composition of and representation on the BoT

[william(at)elan.net]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Andrew Dul wrote:

> I'd of course like to see more people to participate in the process.
> However ARIN currently has over 2100 members and unfortunately from my
> reading of the election results only about 100 organizations even bothered
> to vote in the election.   It is more than just candidates, IMO.

http://www.arin.net/announcements/20041105.html
Total Votes Cast for BoT: 259
Total Votes Cast for AC: 588

Each organization voted for 2 BoT and 5 AC sits, so it should be that 
the number of organizations that participated was:
 based on BoT votes -  259/2 = 129.5
 based on AC votes - 588/5 = 117.6

I'm sorry but am I the only one that things something is wrong? The
resulting number was supposed to be integer and I was expecting numbers
to be the same!

Here is how it looked for previous election: 
http://www.arin.net/announcements/20031107.html
Total Votes Cast for BoT: 184
Total Votes Cast for AC: 644

Each organization voted for 2 BoT and 8 AC sits, so it should be that 
the number of organizations that participated was:
 based on BoT votes -  184/2 = 92
 based on AC votes - 644/8 = 80.5

Can somebody explain why the difference and how many ARIN members really 
participated in each of these elections?

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But in any case it does look a lot like only 5% - 6% of the ARIN
membership participates in elections - that is really really bad!
I think for next year ARIN needs to do somekind of voter-drive,
perhaps an extra /20 for every member that votes will help :)

And based on the number I suspect that those who voted are pretty much
the same group that participates in ARIN members meeting or otherwise 
actively pacticipate in ppml, which means its really it the same small 
group of people/companies that determine ARIN policies and that has been 
my suspision all along.

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net