Re: [wg-review] Voting Rights

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

Kent Crispin wrote:

> Sorry, you have it backwards.  In any democracy, those who are governed
> are the ones who should vote -- we have other names for systems where
> you are governed but don't get a vote.  Those in contractual
> relationships with ICANN are the ONLY ones directly "governed" by ICANN,
> therefore, there is a strong argument that they are the only ones who
> should have a vote.  The difficult argument is how to justify anyone
> else having a vote.

It follows that we should abolish the Intellectual Property constituency,
since those groups have no contract with ICANN.

I have no difficulty at all constructing an argument that domain holders
and end users must have representation, although it is tricky to define
exactly how that should work.

I've yet to see any argument that comes close to justifying the power
that the Intellectual Property folk have in the current structure, let
alone justifying the excesses of the URDP.
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