Categories: Geek

Voting Irregularities at CIRA

CIRA, the Canadian Interney Registration Authority, is, as their “about” page says:

…a not for profit Canadian corporation that is responsible

for operating the dot-ca Internet country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD)

as a key public resource for all Canadians in an innovative, open, and efficient manner.

CIRA may carry out other Internet related registration activities for the Canadian community in a similar manner.

Ross

was running for position on CIRA’s board of directors and thought he

had enough nominations, which isn’t surprising considering his many

contributions to the field of internet domains in both CIRA and ICANN.

The dude’s forgotten more about domains than I will ever learn.

One day last week, two-thirds of his nominations just disappeared. Ross’ suspicion:

…a

person or person controlling a large block of votes purposely inflated

the amount of support for my nomination – which gave me a false

indication of my status in the process – and then withdraw that false

support minutes before the nomination process.

I am inclined to agree.

Ross has the details on his blog and the EFF’s Wendy Seltzer has blogged her take on the situation.

Joey deVilla

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