Total Agreement with David's comments below. Steve Page T: 925-454-8624 Internet .a-.z Name Registry >Corporations are made up of individuals. The interests of corporations will >always be attended to by natural human beings. Corporations and other >organizations will always have a greater ability to amplify the group >position by nature of their collective resources, and need no special >recognition or elevation of power. > >Isn't the ability of a corporation to subsidize the participation of an >individual member sufficient to ensure that the corporate position gets fair >exposure in the marketplace of ideas? Isn't the ability to use mass >communications to propagandize for the corporate position an additional >advantage? > >Why should an artificial, special purpose construct like a corporation be >elevated above, or even to parity with, a natural human being? > >> This does not mean at all that individuals that feel interested >> or concerned >> should not be allowed to become ICANN (or DNSO) Members, it just >> means that >> we cannot afford to have this one as the only constituency. > >I would suggest that an ICANN (or DNSO) that recognizes entities other than >human beings as members runs a great risk of being valueless and amoral. >This is not the kind of organization that I would like to see looking after >a widely shared communications medium. > > >David Schutt > > > >__________________________________________________ >To receive the digest version instead, send a >blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >___END____________________________________________ __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
