Re: Open and Transparent Democracy

[Pisanty Baruch Alejandro-FQ <apisan@servidor.unam.mx>]

Hi Rick,

the worst point against participating in extensive discussions when you
are not  doing so through a fast connection is to sift through tons of
bickering at ten or a hundred times less  bps than it is being produced.

There was not a whole lot of flaming in Bitnet 15 years ago.

I think that the issues at hand in the constituencies process have to be
solved first in conceptual levels not yet fully approached, even if we can
be tranquilized by the availability of the voting software you have
described. 

In fact the predicament seems to be so hard to solve that the intense
discussion about it sort of stopped once there was the NSI-Internic issue
to quarrel about. The Iperdome question of where it belongs seems to
remain unanswered. No one has yet written "come to my constituency" since
it seems to belong to so many of them. Will it choose to have only one
vote? Will we want them voting in many lists since they in fact do
represent different entities?

Can we find a "fair play rule" in advance, or do we have to institute a
Fair Play Supporting Organization?

Alejandro Pisanty


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