[PDB-gov] Voting eligibility

Arturo Servin arturo.servin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 15:15:29 PST 2015


As you, I think that more people should have a right to vote and I agree
there are more stakeholders than just orgs with a registry. But providing a
framework to avoid gaming the process I think is difficult (and possibly
impossible). The alternative that is what we have now I think is not
perfect but a good compromise at least for this first election.

Regards
as



On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 at 15:00 Christian Koch <ck at megaport.com> wrote:

> but thats exaggeration, arturo
>
> who cares if amazon has 1 vote and twitch does, really?
>
> 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
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> On 20 November 2015 at 17:53, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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