Re: [registrars] RE: WLS

["Marcus Faure" <faure@globvill.de>]

Bruce,

> 
> In a group of 45 or so registrars (approximate number of dues paying members
> of the Registrar Constituency), some with as few as 6 CNO registrations as
> of December 31, 2001 (SnapNames State of the Domain - Year-End 2001), if 23
> RC member registrars vote a particular way, even if their volume only
> amounts to 12% of all gTLD registrations, that this becomes the consensus of
> the Registrar Constituency?  Would you define this as consensus, in the
> spirit of ICANN's definition of consensus?
> 

the definition of democracy does not include weighting an individual's vote.
If the vote equals the share of the holder in the domain market, you create the
best way to support monopolistic structures which clearly is _not_ in the
spirit of ICANN's definitions.

Yours,

Marcus
CORE Council of Registrars