ICANN/DNSO

DNSO General Assembly
Basic outline of the election process
b07, Vote by the GA to designate its representative to the Names Council UDRP Task Force

17 July 2001

BASIC OUTLINE OF THE ELECTION PROCESS, b07, Vote by the GA to designate its representative to the Names Council UDRP Task Force

  1. Timeline:

     
       Open   Tuesday 17 July 2001, 07:00 UTC, 09:00 CET (Paris)
   Closed Tuesday 24 July 2001, 07:00 UTC, 09:00 CET (Paris)
   (For local time in other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/)

    The results are due no later than Wednesday 25 July 2001, at 22:00 UTC, 24:00 CET (Paris), and will be published in http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-UdrpTF-vote.html

  2. A ballot is prepared.

    A ballot starts with line "BEGIN" and ends with line "END__".

    It is like this: 

    REQUEST: Please mark a preference, using '1' for the most favored
REQUEST: candidate, '2' for the second, and so on.
REQUEST: There is no requirement to mark all names.
REQUEST: This ballot is From: 'gavote@dnso.org' -- please reply without CC to any list.
IMPORTANT: Please do not strip ballot,
IMPORTANT: it  MUST start with line BEGIN: (do not edit BEGIN line)
IMPORTANT: it  MUST end   with line END__: (do not edit END line)
IMPORTANT: and MUST contain all lines in between.

 BEGIN:b07:KabcdZ:FirstName_LastName:email@address.somewhere:SVP-reply
 b07:KabcdZ:[ ] Chris McElroy 
 b07:KabcdZ:[ ] Rod Dixon
 b07:KabcdZ:[ ] Dan Steinberg
 END__:b07:KabcdZ:FirstName_LastName:email@address.somewhere:SVP-reply

  3. Ballot is assigned a number (first field in a line), here "b07" -- ballot number 07 (it is the seventh ballot submitted to the GA vote since January 2000).

  4. Ballot is personalised. Each line indicates who is voting.

  5. The second field, here between "b07" and "FirstName_LastName", indicate a personalised code given for this ballot to this person. A personalised code is 6 caracteres, starting with "K", ending with "Z", here "KabcdZ".

  6. Do not edit a ballot. Just put a number between square brackets [ ] to rank candidates.

    You cast one vote, no more.

  7. A ballot will arrive From: "gavote@dnso.org" -- please reply without CC to any list.

  8. You will receive an aknowledge of your ballot within 48 hours.

  9. "Election Rules for the DNSO GA V0.2" approved on 23 March 2001 http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-chair-election-rules-v0.2.html

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