Diane,
> > perhaps the practice of compulsory voting is the
> > way to go...
>
> How ever would this be enforced?
>
I should have thought the first question is whether it solves or
avoids the problem of fraudulent namebasing (either multiple votes
or bogus addresses) which keeps coming up as we try to design
toplevel structures and only later looking for their constituencies
underneath.
Admittedly, the issue of enforcement does seem to go along with
that perspective...
But perhaps you misunderstand the concept. 'Compulsory' simply
means that there is a penalty for failure.
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Greg asked,
> What would you do in the case of people who refuse to vote? If people
> disagree with all choices offered, don't they have the right to
> abstain?
Whether penalties should be visited in terms of rights to domain
names, or cost of registration renewal, or the number of virtual
machines one might host is not my concern, but rather whether the
missing link in all this discussion isnt simply the use of 'quid pro
quo' as a working concept (at *all levels).
Do you mean a right to abstain from decision-making, but still
capitalize on the service that results? Sure, why not? We could
even designate a .kid TLD for them, with its own moot-council
(IKANN?), where they could practice getting organized, learn to be
responsible, and so on.
kerry
