The result:

All 770 members signed up before 12:00 GMT, April 19, 2002 received an email ballot form with 3 possible

Vittorio Bertola, Italy (Europe) - 99 votes
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Denmark (Europe) - 83 votes
Richard Henderson, United Kingdom (Europe) - 60 votes
James Love, USA (NorthAm) - 50 votes
Sotiris Sotiropoulos, Canada (NorthAm) - 48 votes
Izumi Aizu, Japan (AsiaPac) - 46 votes
Satyajit Gupta, India (Asia) - 46 votes
Youn Jung Park, Korea (AsiaPac) - 45 votes
Alan Levin, South Africa (Africa) - 43 votes
Robert Gray, New Zealand (AsiaPac) - 31 votes
Wawa Ngenge, Cameroon (Africa) - 31 votes
Vivek Durai, India (Asia) - 29 votes
Veni Markovski, Bulgaria (Europe) - 28 votes
Bretton Vine, South Africa (Africa) - 26 votes
Johannes K Chiang, Taiwan (AsiaPac) - 21 votes
Eric Dierker, USA (NorthAm) - 20 votes
Ron Sherwood, US Virgin Islands (NorthAm) - 19 votes
Daniel Chalef, South Africa (Africa) - 15 votes
James Fiander, Australia (AsiaPac) - 13 votes
Roozbeh Pournader, Iran, Asia (declined during the voting) - 8 votes


Number of ballots received: 293 (38 %) 20 ballots came in too late, 4 were invalid
number of votes cast: 761 (up to 3 per voter)

The elected icannatlarge.com Interim Steering Group:

Izumi Aizu from Asia Network Research has been a member of ICANN's Membership Advisory Committee (MAC) which had recommended the At Large elections. He has also participated in the NGO and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS).

Vittorio Bertola has been a candidate in the 2000 At Large elections. He is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Naming Authority, elected by the Assembly.

Satyajit Gupta is a student at the National Law School of India in Bangalore, a member of the Computer Society of India and has been a remote participant in most of the public ICANN meetings.

Richard Henderson is from Berkhamsted, UK. He has initiated TheInternetChallenge.com, a site devoted to fairness in the distribution of names in the new top level domains.

Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He was a member of the Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF) for the At Large elections and has initiated the ICANN Studienkreis in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

James Love is the director of the Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) based in Washington, DC. He has been a candidate for the DNSO seat on the ICANN Board.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos from Toronto, Canada is an active participant in the DNSO General Assembly and a member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). He has been a member of the DNSO Review Working Group.

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The DNSO secretariat volunteered its assistance in conducting the ballot.
Detailed results at http://www.dnso.org/icannatlarge

The Canditates were:

candidates

Nominated by

Seconded by

Nomination
accepted

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
Vittorio Bertola
Eric Dierker
Richard Henderson
James Fiander
Veni Markovski
Robert Gray
Dr Johannes K Chiang
Roozbeh Pournader
YJ Park
Wawa Ngenge
Ron Sherwood
James Love
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
Vivek Durai
Satyajit Gupta
Alan Levin
Izumi Aizu
Bretton Vine
Daniel Chalef

Joop Teernstra
Joop Teenstra
Andrew McMeikan
Joanna Lane
John D'Arcy
Joop Teernstra
Joop Teernstra
Joop Teernstra
Joop Teernstra
Joop Teernstra
Joop Teernstra
Peter de Blanc
Bill Lovell
Howard Frederick
Antony J. Alex
Amba Salelkar
Ivo Vegter
Joop Teernstra
Ivo Vegter
Ivo Vegter

Seconded Nominees

Other Nominees

Nominated after the deadline or not seconded

MANDATE OF THE INTERIM PANEL

The panel shall be composed of seven members of the icannatlarge.com effort.

The mandate of the panel will be limited to:

1. guiding an outreach campaign so that the highest possible number of active users of the Internet who might want to participate in ICANN are informed of the effort and can register on icannatlarge.com if they wish, and that the membership grows to a point where it can be considered sufficiently representative of such users;

2. guiding the public and open discussion of Bylaws for a new At Large Membership organization, trying to gather consensus, consider all inputs, unify all efforts, and put together, after no more than two months from its election, one or more proposals of Bylaws to be then submitted and approved by a majority vote of the membership;

3. establishing a secure voting system for the Bylaws to be approved and subsequently for the first election of the officers of the new organization.

4. facilitating and taking responsibility for the election of their successor Panel by July 27, 2002

5. managing the icannatlarge.com website by appointing a webmaster.

6. facilitating and promoting the discussion of ICANN policies and/or ICANN reform in the Forum.

LIMITATIONS

A. The mandate will end 3 months after the election has closed.

B. The Panel cannot make decisions unless a quorum of five is present and votes.

Polls to ratify a Charter and elect officers for a term longer than 3 months will not be taken until there are at least 1000 members signed up.