[H-GEN] IAMEMS: ICANN At Large Voter Registrations (fwd)

[Raymond Smith]

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> Expectations for the number of voters were drastically exceeded.

The stats page lists the total number of registered voters as 158 593. If
we assume this is 1% of Internet users then this puts the number of people
connected to the net at sixteen million roughly. I'm pretty sure there are
more users of the Internet than this so it would seem that ICANN's
expectations of participation were very low indeed.

> 	Any system, no matter how well designed, will still have troubles
> 	when expectations are exceeded.

Very true. And I realise I am speaking with the 20/20 of hindsight.

Raymond

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