Re: [ga] IPC on ALAC

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 19:50 [=GMT+0200], Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

> The IPC with its 66 members representing "tens of thousands of members"
> is as unrepresentative as any other club on the Net.  The concept of
> representativeness the IPC report is referring to does not and will
> never work on the Internet. Only electorates with enumerable citizens
> can generate representative bodies. Internet users are not countable.

Domain name holders are countable. In principle holders of email addresses
are too. But since the latter can be had for free, unlike the former,
fraud is too easy, unless there is a membership fee. But then we might as
well throw in a domain with the membership, since they are so cheap these
days.


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