Hi,

First thanks to all who are thanking me.  I must admit I am very relieved and I am not sure what I would have done if it had not passed.  It has been a slog.

On the suggestion made by Ron:

1. I do not beleive there is any greater guarantee that people return physical mail (p-mail?).  I know I open very little of it, and what I open is mostly once every few months when I need to separate the shredder items from the straight into recycle items. I almost never send things in, including ballots for all the thingies I belong to by virtue of having made a contribution tor even having joined, e.g. ACM and IEEE.

2. Getting verifiable email addresses is a challenge.  Getting verified p-mail addresses is beyond what  I would want to contemplate.

3. not all members necessarily live in places where doing non commercial activities is approved of.  Some may need to have a online presence. 

4. the Charter we just accepted says:

> All NCSG votes will be held using an online voting system to be determined, approved and supervised by the NCSG-EC.

So we would need a charter amendment process to do this.

But we do need to do something to ensure greater participation.

Cheers,

a.



On 30 Aug 2011, at 13:38, Ron Wickersham wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Avri Doria wrote:
> 
>> -  The charter got 96 votes in favor.
>> -  Recalling that there were 155 possible votes for this ballot.
>> -  96 votes constitutes 61.9% of the eligible electorate.
>> 
>> The charter has met the 60% threshold requirements for adoption by the NCSG and is now the Stakeholder Group's governing document.
> 
> Congratulations to all for the vote that confirms the position of the
> membership of NCSG to influence the course of ICANN.   and THANKS to
> Avri for the long struggle to get it thru the process and to make
> it thru to a positive outcome in the vote.
> 
> I am surprised that the vote was this close and wonder why so many
> individuals and organizations failed to fill in their ballot.  For
> future on votes of this importance (an issue that would make/break
> the exisistence of the NCSG) i would suggest we ask that paper
> ballots be mailed to the eligible voters.  This is no small task or
> expense, but pales with the expenses ICANN incurrs in holding the
> board meetings around the workd and other routine expenses.
> 
> -ron
>