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<div>We could write membership criteria and if they're met they get a vote. Corporate membership will work for this. </div>
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<div>Getting it right will take more time. </div>
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<div>Btw. How much money does PDB have on account? </div>
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<div>Tks. </div>
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On Nov 20, 2015, at 18:21, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>The problem here and where things could really become a circus is when you start trying to choose
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<div class="">For example, Tellme had at least 3 ASNs when I was there… Should they get 3 votes?</div>
<div class="">If Amazon and Twich get a total of 2, why shouldn’t Tellme AZ and Tellme San Jose and</div>
<div class="">Tellme Ashburn each get a vote?</div>
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<div class="">What makes those operations less independent than Amazon and Twitch?</div>
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<div class="">How do you write that into the bylaws?</div>
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<div class="">On Nov 20, 2015, at 14:59 , Christian Koch <<a href="mailto:ck@megaport.com" class="">ck@megaport.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">who cares if amazon has 1 vote and twitch does, really? </div>
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<div class="">independent networks, independent management, independent goals, independent tools, independent opinions - and they dont have to agree with each other, and therefore they should be considered individual orgs, and each get their own vote</div>
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<div class="">i think most people do not care or just dont want to speak up. because peeringdb made a bad decision to want to become an independent org</div>
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I would say that having hundreds of votes from tens of orgs holding more than one vote would be the real circus.
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<div class="">And not complaining to have a single vote does not mean that orgs do not care, it probably means that they agree with the process.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 at 14:47 Christian Koch <<a href="mailto:ck@megaport.com" target="_blank" class="">ck@megaport.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">if i had a asn and peered, id pull my data out of peeringdb after seeing this circus</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 November 2015 at 17:40, Chris Caputo <span dir="ltr" class="">
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<span class="">On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christian Koch wrote:<br class="">
</span><span class="">> i have already mentioned it, chris.<br class="">
> Google, which has multiple ASN's registered in peeringdb, should obviously not get more than 1 vote<br class="">
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> On 20 November 2015 at 17:26, Chris Caputo <<a href="mailto:secretary@peeringdb.com" target="_blank" class="">secretary@peeringdb.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> You've said that but you haven't explained why it is broken.<br class="">
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> As Will has pointed out, if you remove the affiliate clause you make it<br class="">
> possible to game the elections.<br class="">
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> As an aside, if Amazon had said they want the vote, I would have informed<br class="">
> Twitch that Amazon will be voting instead of Twitch, on the basis of<br class="">
> Amazon being the controlling organization.<br class="">
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> I think the election and rules are working well and as intended. 55 of 64<br class="">
> registered voters have voted. With 10 days left the number of registered<br class="">
> voters will likely go up. I think the goal of a fair and representative<br class="">
> election is happening.<br class="">
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> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christian Koch wrote:<br class="">
> > this is so broken. its unfortunate. <br class="">
> > hopefully the newly elected board will perform surgery and fix this<br class="">
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> > On 20 November 2015 at 17:06, <<a href="mailto:secretary@peeringdb.com" target="_blank" class="">secretary@peeringdb.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> > Under the current election and rules, Twitch and Amazon are not able to<br class="">
> > both vote.<br class="">
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> > When Twitch opted to vote, I informed Amazon and secured permission from<br class="">
> > Amazon that Twitch would be doing their vote.<br class="">
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> > Chris<br class="">
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> > On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, C N wrote:<br class="">
> > > Not trying to derail the 'Twitch' vote but Twitch is an Amazon<br class="">
> > > Subsidiary yet we run our own network. Based on what I have read from<br class="">
> > > some here, that would disqualify either the 'Twitch AS' or 'Amazon AS'<br class="">
> > > since only one could vote. If that were the case, who chooses who gets<br class="">
> > > to vote?<br class="">
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> > > Christian<br class="">
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> > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Christian Koch <<a href="mailto:ck@megaport.com" target="_blank" class="">ck@megaport.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> > > if thats the policy, then peeringdb should be modified for organizations with multiple ASN's so there<br class="">
> can<br class="">
> > primary and<br class="">
> > > sub ASN's<br class="">
> > > just because there is a parent company, does not mean policy is controlled by a single person or<br class="">
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> > > On 20 November 2015 at 15:03, Chris Caputo <<a href="mailto:ccaputo@alt.net" target="_blank" class="">ccaputo@alt.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> > > In the current draft, networks are not members. Business entities are.<br class="">
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> > > Some businesses have multiple networks / multiple ASNs. I hope we can<br class="">
> > > agree they should only have one vote.<br class="">
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> > > Do you really want to give conglomerates multiple votes while<br class="">
> > > non-conglomerates have a single vote?<br class="">
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> > > Chris<br class="">
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> > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christian Koch wrote:<br class="">
> > > > going to have to agree here.<br class="">
> > > > this is a silly rule, with no way to validate the independence of the network policy. <br class="">
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> > > > On 19 November 2015 at 13:27, Pierfrancesco Caci <<a href="mailto:pf@caci.it" target="_blank" class="">pf@caci.it</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> > > > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Caputo <<a href="mailto:ccaputo@alt.net" target="_blank" class="">ccaputo@alt.net</a>> writes:<br class="">
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> > > > Chris> On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:<br class="">
> > > > >> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Caputo <<a href="mailto:secretary@peeringdb.com" target="_blank" class="">secretary@peeringdb.com</a>> writes:<br class="">
> > > > Chris> - 2 organizations have been disallowed from voting due to<br class="">
> > > > Chris> coming under the purview of the draft bylaws affiliate<br class="">
> > > > Chris> clause (*). 1 was disallowed because of a parent<br class="">
> > > > Chris> organization affiliation, and 1 was disallowed because<br class="">
> > > > Chris> of a common control affiliation.<br class="">
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> > > > >> After this election is over, I suggest that we talk about when a<br class="">
> > > > >> controlled organization is independent enough to get their own vote<br class="">
> > > > >> besides that of the parent. One of the 2 orgs that have been disallowed<br class="">
> > > > >> could well have voted independently of mine, in my opinion.<br class="">
> > > ><br class="">
> > > > Chris> Allowing organizations under common control to have multiple votes,<br class="">
> > > > Chris> depending on the level of independence reported by the organizations<br class="">
> > > > Chris> themselves, would seem to be a challenging equation to balance.<br class="">
> > > ><br class="">
> > > > Chris> If A is a parent of B and C, and B and C are able to vote,<br class="">
> > > > Chris> then A wields<br class="">
> > > > Chris> twice the influence of other voters.<br class="">
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> > > > Chris> I don't see how that can be negated.<br class="">
> > > ><br class="">
> > > > I'm not sure which cases we're trying to prevent here. B and C run<br class="">
> > > > different networks with different peering policies and requirements.<br class="">
> > > > I understand that you have no possibility to check the level of<br class="">
> > > > independence. Anyway, let's have this vote come to conclusion, and maybe<br class="">
> > > > in the meantime I or someone else comes up with a better idea.<br class="">
> > > ><br class="">
> > > > Pf<br class="">
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