Re: [ga] Business Constituency

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

--- "John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com> wrote:
> Well, at least the GA includes all 127k members of INEGroup. 
> Although if you
> plot INEGroup membership over time, it appears their growth curve has
> flattened out somewhat over the last year.

lol I've always envisioned the "127K members" to be some ant farm in a
basement somewhere, or something, given it's highly unlikely those are
127,000 living human beings.

On a more serious note, would folks support an individual domain name
holders constituency, where voting weight was determined by:

1) membership fee (say $25 or $50)
2) voting according to SQUARE ROOT of domain names held?
3) maximum 5% voting weight for any single member

So, a single member with, say, 100 domains would have 10 times the
voting weight of a single member with 1 domain. This would prevent it
from being controlled by large firms. Kind of like the compromise in
the US Congress, where small states each have 2 senators, regardless of
population, and then a number of seats proportional to population.

Verification of the number of domains per member could be done by
sending an email to postmaster@domain.com, since all domains are
supposed to have that address. For those with lots of domains, a script
that can verify identifcal WHOIS information for the admin contact
across all domains could be used, and then a single email sent to the
admin contact (perhaps in co-operation with registrars, who have such
scripts already when they perform transfers).

Lots of potential problems, though...e.g. which domains to include
(e.g. is a .com domain equal to a .de domain?)? How about .tv domains?
(e.g. someone at Verisign could create a billion fake domains, to get
lots of voting power). Maybe restrict it to the gTLD domains, until
such time as ICANN is charging a fixed fee per domain across all TLDs?
(e.g. once .ca holders get charged 25 cents in ICANN fees per year, or
whatever .com holders will be charged, .ca holders would be eligible to

have their domains count in the voting)

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/

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