[registrars] FW: Invitation to join the Transfer Assistance Group

[Ross Wm. Rader]

On 8/13/2003 4:06 PM Elana Broitman noted that:

> Dear Registrars - Please note that 4 registrars have been invited by ICANN to participate in the Transfers Assistance Group: Paul Westley, Ross Rader, Bruce Tonkin, and myself.  As you can see below, this is only an advisory group, not charged with policy making or implementation.  As such, under Registrar Constituency bylaws, it did not require a formal eleciton.  The bylaws call for election to task forces, ExCom and the GNSO Council.

This strikes me as a self-serving and overly narrow interpretation of 
our bylaws. I have two questions;

1) Does this mean that we no longer require elections to put forward 
constituency members as participants in all other "committees" that have 
finite appointment requirements? (ie - are not open to all registrars?)

2) Did a) ICANN simply pick these names out of a hat or b) did the 
Executive Committee simply put these names forward without consulting 
the membership?

If the answer to 1) is yes and the answer to 2) is "b" then we should 
probably just throw out the bylaws and drop the pretense that this 
constituency has any legitimacy.

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                        -rwr