Re: [wg-review] Constituencies, 1 governance and legality

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:45:05PM -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> 
> > An organization under control of a totally open membership could
> > simply decide, for example, that all domain names should be free.
> 
> If one is willing to accept the principle that in a democracy sovreignty
> vests in the people then one has to accept that such can be a perfectly
> acceptable outcome.  Irrational choices are sometimes made - but not very
> often.  And the cost of those mistakes is greatly outweighed by the
> benefits of the overall process.
> 
> All those registrars and registries you so worry about are free to
> participate in an open membership.  If they can't carry their point, then
> perhaps they didn't have one in the first place.

Well, of course, since your company Cisco manufactures most of the
network infrastructure that we all use, Cisco and the other network
infrastructure companies ought to submit to the will of the people as
well, and put themselves under the control of ICANN.  Why don't you
bring that up with John Chambers? After all, to quote you: "If one is
willing to accept the principle that in a democracy sovreignty vests in
the people then one has to accept that such can be a perfectly
acceptable outcome." That's what democracy is all about, eh? If he
doesn't agree, it doesn't matter, because, after all, the will of the
people should take precedence over everything else. 

In fact, if we follow your absurd argument to its logical endpoint, all
commerce should be put under the direct control of a world plebescite --
oh, wait! -- someone tried that, didn't they? :-)

> Under your rubric we ought to hand the election of the US President and
> Congress over to corporations - just like has been done in the DNSO.

You are once again making up a silly strawman argument.  I have no such
"rubric". 

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