Re: CONSENSUS? [ga] DNSO General Assembly call to change seating rule

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:15:00PM -0600, Weisberg wrote:
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:11:03AM -0600, Weisberg wrote:
> > >
> > > The issue of legitimacy is quite real.
> >
> > Yes, but you overlook a very fundamental question.  Legitimacy with
> > whom?
> 
> No.  I defined "legitimacy" in terms of the governed, and their power to
> affect who shall represent them.  How would you define it?

ICANN isn't a government.

The entities over which ICANN has direct influence are registries,
registrars, and standards bodies.  They would constitute the 
"governed". 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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