Re: [ga] Matters to discuss

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 22:32 21/02/00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

>Some of the members of the DNSO GA and Announce list are list 
>redistribution points or archivers. Those functions obviously don't have 
>any ambition about being members, but some of the people who read list 
>traffic via those mechanisms might want to be counted as members, even 
>though they aren't on the list.
>

The way to deal with that is to broadcast via those distribution points
that the voters' roll of the GA is being built and that all genuine <g>
human beings that care to use their rights to vote in the GA should contact
you, Roberto or another volunteer and register their name and an email
address to be used for ballotting.

>I take it we all agree that the GA members are human beings, acting for 
>themselves (no corporations as GA members, one man = one vote)?

Yes.

>And that we accept the risk that some organization with ten thousand 
>members might want to sign them all up to the GA and "take it over" - that 
>it's so unlikely this would happen that we don't see a reason to guard 
>against it?

Yes. The risk of a takeover (or destruction) by a very tiny minority is
demonstrably greater.

>(or - that if this happened, they would be welcome to it?)
>
As long as all those individuals signed up individually, yes.  
You'd be lucky if 30% of them actually used their voting rights.





--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , founder  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org  (or direct:) 
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/

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