Re: Open and Transparent Democracy

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

Michael,

I was under the impression that there were to be an initial set of
constituencys that were outlined on the bylaws from ICANN. If you wish to 
subvert the constituency problem just make your ballot proposals for the
entire membership. 

Please remember that the site i built is not for binding anyone to a
piticular constituency, it is to help a group of individuals make
decisions.

-rick


 On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Michael Sondow wrote:

> Rick H. Wesson a écrit:
> 
> 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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> > >      (Director, Computing Academic Services)
> > >      Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
> > >      Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City DF MEXICO
> > >
> > > Tel. (+52-5) 622-8541, 622-8542; Fax 622-8540
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