[PDB-gov] Voting eligibility

Arturo Servin arturo.servin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 14:53:22 PST 2015


I would say that having hundreds of votes from tens of orgs holding more
than one vote would be the real circus.

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.

-as

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 at 14:47 Christian Koch <ck at megaport.com> wrote:

> thats the problem, judging by the number of registered voters, most people
> dont care.
>
> just sayin...
>
> if i had a asn and peered, id pull my data out of peeringdb after seeing
> this circus
>
> On 20 November 2015 at 17:40, Chris Caputo <secretary at peeringdb.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christian Koch wrote:
>> > i have already mentioned it, chris.
>> > Google, which has multiple ASN's registered in peeringdb, should
>> obviously not get more than 1 vote
>> >
>> > But what about Google and Google Fiber?
>> >
>> > Their parent company is Alphabet. Do they get 2 votes?
>>
>> No, they got one vote.  And they didn't appear to object to the notion.
>>
>> > Edgecast and Verizon should also get a vote each, if they cared.
>>
>> If Verizon owns more than 50% of Edgecast or has the power to
>> independently control it, 1 vote.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> > 64 registered voters out of how many potential? i dont know if id call
>> that a success
>> >
>> > too many people have their heads up their asses and this should have
>> never gone down this path to begin with, quite frankly
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 20 November 2015 at 17:26, Chris Caputo <secretary at peeringdb.com>
>> wrote:
>> >       You've said that but you haven't explained why it is broken.
>> >
>> >       As Will has pointed out, if you remove the affiliate clause you
>> make it
>> >       possible to game the elections.
>> >
>> >       As an aside, if Amazon had said they want the vote, I would have
>> informed
>> >       Twitch that Amazon will be voting instead of Twitch, on the basis
>> of
>> >       Amazon being the controlling organization.
>> >
>> >       I think the election and rules are working well and as intended.
>> 55 of 64
>> >       registered voters have voted.  With 10 days left the number of
>> registered
>> >       voters will likely go up.  I think the goal of a fair and
>> representative
>> >       election is happening.
>> >
>> >       Chris
>> >
>> >       On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christian Koch wrote:
>> >       > this is so broken. its unfortunate.
>> >       > hopefully the newly elected board will perform surgery and fix
>> this
>> >       >
>> >       >
>> >       > On 20 November 2015 at 17:06, <secretary at peeringdb.com> wrote:
>> >       >       Under the current election and rules, Twitch and Amazon
>> are not able to
>> >       >       both vote.
>> >       >
>> >       >       When Twitch opted to vote, I informed Amazon and secured
>> permission from
>> >       >       Amazon that Twitch would be doing their vote.
>> >       >
>> >       >       Chris
>> >       >
>> >       >       On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, C N wrote:
>> >       >       > Not trying to derail the 'Twitch' vote but Twitch is an
>> Amazon
>> >       >       > Subsidiary yet we run our own network. Based on what I
>> have read from
>> >       >       > some here, that would disqualify either the 'Twitch AS'
>> or 'Amazon AS'
>> >       >       > since only one could vote. If that were the case, who
>> chooses who gets
>> >       >       > to vote?
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       > Christian
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Christian Koch <
>> ck at megaport.com> wrote:
>> >       >       >       if thats the policy, then peeringdb should be
>> modified for organizations with multiple ASN's so there
>> >       can
>> >       >       primary and
>> >       >       >       sub ASN's
>> >       >       >       just because there is a parent company, does not
>> mean policy is controlled by a single person or
>> >       group
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       > On 20 November 2015 at 15:03, Chris Caputo <
>> ccaputo at alt.net> wrote:
>> >       >       >       In the current draft, networks are not members.
>> Business entities are.
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >       Some businesses have multiple networks / multiple
>> ASNs.  I hope we can
>> >       >       >       agree they should only have one vote.
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >       Do you really want to give conglomerates multiple
>> votes while
>> >       >       >       non-conglomerates have a single vote?
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >       Chris
>> >       >       >
>> >       >       >       On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christian Koch wrote:
>> >       >       >       > going to have to agree here.
>> >       >       >       > this is a silly rule, with no way to validate
>> the independence of the network policy.
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       > On 19 November 2015 at 13:27, Pierfrancesco
>> Caci <pf at caci.it> wrote:
>> >       >       >       >       >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Caputo <
>> ccaputo at alt.net> writes:
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> On Thu, 19 Nov 2015,
>> Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
>> >       >       >       >           >> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Caputo <
>> secretary at peeringdb.com> writes:
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> - 2 organizations have been
>> disallowed from voting due to
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> coming under the purview of
>> the draft bylaws affiliate
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> clause (*).  1 was disallowed
>> because of a parent
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> organization affiliation, and
>> 1 was disallowed because
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> of a common control
>> affiliation.
>> >       >       >       >           >>
>> >       >       >       >           >> After this election is over, I
>> suggest that we talk about when a
>> >       >       >       >           >> controlled organization is
>> independent enough to get their own vote
>> >       >       >       >           >> besides that of the parent. One of
>> the 2 orgs that have been disallowed
>> >       >       >       >           >> could well have voted
>> independently of mine, in my opinion.
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> Allowing organizations under
>> common control to have multiple votes,
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> depending on the level of
>> independence reported by the organizations
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> themselves, would seem to be a
>> challenging equation to balance.
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> If A is a parent of B and C,
>> and B and C are able to vote,
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> then A wields
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> twice the influence of other
>> voters.
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >           Chris> I don't see how that can be
>> negated.
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >       I'm not sure which cases we're trying to
>> prevent here. B and C run
>> >       >       >       >       different networks with different peering
>> policies and requirements.
>> >       >       >       >       I understand that you have no possibility
>> to check the level of
>> >       >       >       >       independence. Anyway, let's have this
>> vote come to conclusion, and maybe
>> >       >       >       >       in the meantime I or someone else comes
>> up with a better idea.
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >       Pf
>> >       >       >       >
>> >       >       >       >       --
>> >       >       >       >       Pierfrancesco Caci
>> >       >       >
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