Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC, TC,Chair prior to co-Chair elections

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:24:57PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:07:25PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > >
> > > >From the above, then, is my understanding correct, that you also believe
> > > that all citizens should get equal say, and, thus, that ownership of
> > > property (in this instance, domain names, trademarks, etc), should not
> > > be a criterion for suffrage?
> > 
> > Yes.  However, I also believe quite strongly that citizenship and
> > suffrage are *completely* inappropriate concepts to use relative to
> > ICANN.  One is a citizen of a state; ICANN is not a state, and it
> > is not a government.
> > 
> 
> citizen - 3 US a civilian <square box character thing> citizen of the
> world - a person who is at home anywhere

"a person who is at home anywhere" is not a useful definition, sorry -- 
let's substitute it in your sentence to see just how absurd it is:

    ...you also believe that all persons who are at home anywhere should
    get equal say, and, thus, that ownership of property (in this
    instance, domain names, trademarks, etc), should not be a criterion
    for suffrage?

> suffrage - 1 a the right of voting in political elections (full adult
> suffrage).

Sorry, we have a fundamental disagreement.  ICANN is not a government, 
it doesn't hold political elections.  It is a corporation.  People keep 
forgetting that.

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