Re: [ga] RE: DNSO Constituency Structure

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

At 08:06 23/11/01 -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

>Whenever I hear the word consensus now even outside of the confines of ICANNs
>little world I cringe.

No kidding.

>We would be best served by establishing a set of workable voting
>systems/processes, doing away with the lie of "consensus" that has
>permeated ICANN as well as the constant gerrymandering the occurs on a
>daily basis dedicated to keeping people *out* rather than bringing them
>in.

If ICANN or DNSO decisionmaking would be on the basis of one-(wo)man, 
one-vote there would be an urgent need for safety-in -numbers.

The current number of participants is not nearly enough to prevent a quick 
member recruitment and capture by, say , the deep pocketed IP lobby.

This is where the original idea of a healthy At Large membership of several 
hundred thousand comes in.



--Joop

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