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>A 18:29 11/02/99 -0500, Bob Allisat a =E9crit :
>>Daniel Kaplan writes:
>>+ So my suggestion(s) is/are: No classes. Individuals and organizations
>>+ can be members and get one vote each. Anyone coming up with the
>>+ initiation fee and the necessary identification can be a member.
>>
>> I'll just form a thousand dummy companies
>> each with their own membership all paid up.
>> Presto, I own the Internet or a reasonable
>> facsimile thereof. Doesn't work. Will never
>> work. Is undemocratic and basically evil.
>
>We won't make any progress if you believe anyone who disagrees with you is
>basically evil.
>Doing what you say you'll do (of course, I understand you just provided
>this as an example of what "one" could do):
>(1) Is fairly evil
>(2) Is rather costly and probably dumb. I doubt anyone will have the
>incentive to do this in order to stuff ballots in ther election of ICANN's
>At Large directors. This is granting too much influence to ICANN, as well
>as supposing the number of members is so low that forming a thousand
>companies is enough to take over tha At Large membership. Making fraud
>useless and expensive is a good way to prevent it from happening.
>(3) Getting all your employees to join ICANN (and forcing them to vote as
>you want them to) is more efficient, even more if you're a large company.
>So the bias towards large organizations is even stronger if only
>individuals can vote.
>
>> I would never join an organization none of my
>> friends and neighbours could participate in.
>> I am not one of the elite nor do I consider my-
>> self in any way special or exceptional. Just
>> one of the one hundred million, Daniel. One.
>
>Where on earth did I write ICANN should prevent your friends and neighbours
>from joining???
>
>Daniel
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