Web based voting system. The members log-in and vote. Voting is open for a specified time period (24-96 hours?).
Too short. Allow a week, or more realistically multiples thereof. Some decisions require the members to build consent in their organizations and need to be discussed, which requires time. It's a silly notion to assume that large organizations can respond to these types of things in a matter of hours/days; given that this industry as a whole is generally always overworked.
We are IP-based companies afterall. :-)
Make sure you have a backup process, which may further increase the length of your voting window (snail mail, etc). -- Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect Architecture, BellSouth.net <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Atlanta, GA "Speaking for myself only."