Re: Open and Transparent Democracy

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Rick H. Wesson a écrit:
> 
> Hola,
> 
> Through the use of ballots that the constituencys can propose questions
> and have them answered by their membership. as I understand it there is
> *more* things to figure out for each constituency that there was for the
> DNSO bylaws. The site i built is not just for electing individuals it is
> for distributed decision support.
> 
> If you can outline what issues need to be resolved and propose some
> options, i'm sure i can help you write up the abllot for it.

The NCDNHC (Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency) needs
to be further defined so as to exclude not only commercial companies
but their organizations (like INTA, ICC, etc.), which may themselves
be non-profit. Thus an organization like the ORSC, which one might
want to include in this constituency, may unfortunately have to be
excluded in order to keep out other non-profit organizations whose
members are commercial. This could perhaps be usefully discussed,
and even voted on. But who will be allowed to vote on it? There is a
problem of the chicken and the egg here.

> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Pisanty Baruch Alejandro-FQ wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 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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