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


Damn! I hate it when you say things I have to agree with... really!
However, you are correct. ICANN is NOT a state, sufferage is irrelevent.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent Crispin [mailto:kent@songbird.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 9:41 PM
> To: wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC,
> TC,Chair prior to co-Chair elections
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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