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

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Right.

So, you are saying that we are run buy a corporation, and, that it
should remain that way.

You believe that we, the people of the Internet, should have no say in
its operation, but that we should be subject to the whims of a
corporation.

Okay, then. Glad we got that sorted out.

?

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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