Re: [wg-d] NC Elections. Was: ga] DNSO General Assembly - Revised Agenda

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 12:14 PM 13/08/1999 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:

>
>The intent of the GA was that they have influence through their 
>EXPERTISE, not that the GA is an independent power center.  The idea 
>of the SOs as a whole was that they should provide *expert* opinion 
>from various sources.  Populist representation in the structure 
>comes from the membership of ICANN, which elects 9 directors.
>
Populist is a negative term.
To call the at-large representation "populist" before the directors are
known, before the electorate is even decided upon, shows a great deal of
bias against the structure of the future ICANN Board and bodes ill for the
future harmony between the "expert" and the "populist" Board members. 

--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , bootstrap  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org