Re: [ga] Parties

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Thanks Danny and Thomas,
for that piece of apparent incoherence (may I remind the letter of Esther 
to Ralph Nader about the extremely limited role of her organization).  I do 
not see any reason why a small technical secretariat like the USCANN would 
extend to such an extraordinary "effective system".
Would anyone from a "USCANNer" party want to provide a "coherent 
explanation" about such an idea which would be "a lot better" than people. 
We start understanding why Joop stand no chance, and why we have to send 
him at the BoD.
Jefsey

/On 03:51 05/07/01, DannyYounger@cs.com said:
>Excerpted from "Challenges for Domain Managers", by Esther Dyson
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/27/B
>
>U171918.DTL&type=printable
>(Thanks to Alexander Svensson and Thomas Roessler for providing this citation
>on the @Large forum).
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>
>Right now, there is some lively discussion of all these issues. But it is
>still difficult for points of view, rather than specific people or
>nationalities, to get votes. People outside the United States and Europe
>often feel marginalized in ICANN's English-only deliberations. Those who lack
>Web access, and communicate primarily by e-mail, can't use its current
>Web-centric facilities.
>
>What ICANN needs ultimately is the equivalent of political parties. Perhaps a
>No New TLDs party, or a Free-IP Rights party (which would support a totally
>free market in domain names), or the Alternative-Root party, which would
>support alternatives to the domain-name system.
>
>Each of these parties would then have to provide coherent explanations of how
>its policies would work, and to win adherents. These parties should not be
>organized by ICANN (unlike its three supporting organizations, which
>represent specific interests and already elect half of ICANN's board).
>
>Would this approach work? It would still be an experiment. Proper voting
>policies would need to make sure a party didn't simply buy votes. But a
>marketplace for ideas is a lot better than one for people.
>
>In the end, ICANN as an effective system, not just an organization, depends
>on input from the public in addition to a set of formal rules governing how
>board members can vote on ICANN's policies.
>
>That is, it depends on independent action by self-appointed, self- organizing
>stakeholders around the world. That means you.
>
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