[ga] WLS/delete/Usurpation/ voting

[eric@hi-tek.com]

Life itself is a wonderful experiment.

Standing on and by our word is one of the tests within that experiment.  We do
not have any moral problems here we simply have a breach of protocol.  And the
results of the heretofore ICANN tests must be thrown out and we must start
again.

When my scientist type father was working on a public health problem I
remember him telling me "schiestcoff I have to start all over" (of course I do
not know how to spell such a scientific term) The point is that we must toss
the petre dishes of a bad test program and start again. It is a requirement of
integrity.

OTOH we are doing better than ever before.  Now let us tackle the
WLS/delete/Usurpation/ problems.

It is always good to hear from Adam,

Sincerely,
Eric

Adam PEAKE wrote:

> During the ALSC study we were told that:
>
> "VeriSign Registrar estimates that over 75% of its customers are
> individuals or small or medium enterprises with less than ten employees.
> [Verified in email from VeriSign, Inc. to the ALSC on September 26,
> 2001]" <http://www.atlargestudy.org/final_report.shtml>
>
> Information presented to show that taking domain name owners as the "At
> Large" did not create an electorate of corporate reps.
>
> Statistics, gotta love 'em,
>
> Adam
>
> "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" wrote:
> >
> > THANKS.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kent Crispin [mailto:kent@songbird.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:58 PM
> > To: ga@DNSO.org
> > Subject: Re: [ga] The Real World
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 May 2002, at 23:15 [=GMT-0400], Cade,Marilyn S - LGA wrote:
> > > > You must be joking if you equate the registrars and registries with
> > > > the business users. Don't mistake us. WE are users.
> > >
> > > A small but important part of the users, sure.
> >
> > Sorry, that is utter nonsense.
> >
> > *Most* domain names are registered for business purposes.  (Old
> > estimates from NSI were on the order of 70% of registrations in
> > .com/net/org combined.  These estimates are necessarily rough, but even
> > a casual examination supports it.) If you count domains registered by
> > speculators as a business use, the proportion would be even higher.  If
> > you throw in all other organizational use, the porportion gets even
> > greater.  Domains registered by individuals for purposes other than
> > business are a *very* tiny minority of the domains registered, and in
> > this regard the GA is completely non-representative.
> >
> > *Any* representation scheme that gave equal weight to the various users
> > of the domain name system would end up with business getting an
> > overwhelming majority of the votes.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> > Technical Support Manager, ICANN            lonesome."
> > crispin@icann.org,kent@songbird.com                    -- Mark Twain
> >
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