Re: Who is who in PAB? (and who votes on bahalf of who?)

Robert Shaw (robert.shaw@itu.int)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:47:47 +0100


Kent Crispin wrote:

>
> than small organizations. Furthermore, if the number of signatories
> gets very large -- say 10000 or so -- management of the signatories
> would probably be a problem, just in manpower demands at the ITU, if
> nothing else.

amen..

> An interesting further question is what checking is done to verify
> that the signatories of the MoU are who they claim to be. What
> checking is done, for example, to verify that the same organization
> isn't signing up multiple times, or that a signatory is who they say
> they are? [Could I sign as Microsoft?] [Recall that different chapters
> of the ISOC signed -- these entities were obviously treated as
> distinct, though they are all under the same blanket.]

We do follow-up vetting of some suspicious signatories and usually
an email query back to them goes unanswered so so far this has not
been a serious problem (about 5 rejections to date). However, at some
point, I'd like it if PAB develops a small vetting committee to just
verify our subjective judgements. I've casually discussed with Amadeu
and it's my fault that I haven't followed up more on this.

Gosh, we should have elections more often - it so quiet in PAB. :-)

Robert

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