Re: [wg-review] Karl's assigned objective.

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:18:42AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Regarding one of the issues to which you referred, about the domain name
> holders having votes,

During the formation of the US constitution there was a vigorous debate 
about whether being a property owner should be a requirement for being 
able to vote.  Ben Franklin reportedly said the following:

    "A man owns an ass; he can vote. The ass dies, the man loses his 
    vote.  Who really has the vote?"

In our modern parlance:

    "A person registers a domain, they can vote.  The domain gets taken 
    away in a UDRP action, they can no longer vote..."

It is utter nonsense to think that only domain name registrants should 
be allowed to be members of *any* constituency.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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