At 04:48 PM 2/8/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>On 09-Feb-99 Ken Freed wrote:
>> Eric Weisberg says the mass of folks on earth will not
>> vote in ICANN elections, even if asked, so he proposes
>> going instead with public interest organizations having
>> a say in the process. His notions have merit, yet notice
>> the assumption that public apathy will prevail. I am not
>> convinced this will always be the case. Think long term.
>
>Well, real world examples don't tend to support your claim.
>
>For example, Ripe hosts a mailing list wwTLD for ccTLD managers, it is much
>like their internal domain-policy list. Less than HALF of the ccTLD managers
>have participated in this list. And these are people DIRECTLY affected by
this
>process. You would expect the number to be much higher than that.
>
>The fact is that until something happens that directly affects them and that
>they feel they can be an activist about, they will not get involved. And
>history tends to indicate that most of those who get involved in such a
>fashion, tend to get involved only for the short term, and drop off once their
>problem is either solved, or it becomes obvious that their problem will not be
>solved by their participation.
>
Concur with all of the above from Mr. Walsh. Just look at U. S. National
elections: turnout 35% at best?
See below.
>E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 08-Feb-99
>Time: 16:44:55
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>"We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
>of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
>- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
Is this last supposed to be communicating something, or is it
just a gastric effluence?
William S. Lovell
Attorney at Law
