On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 09:28:40PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 08:42:16PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry, but when an organization does not ASK its membership for its
> >> opinions on an issue it cannot claim to represent them.
> >
> >A vast generality that can't possibly be true. Your congressperson
> >can legitimately claim to represent you, even though they don't ask
> >your opinion on every thing they vote on.
>
> Big difference between an governmental official, elected by the populace,
> and a membership organization that claims to "speak for" vast numbers of
> people, yet never either asks them their view, nor produces their draft
> views for membership comment prior to statements.
We've been around this tree before. Organizational representation is
a complex affair, and no simple generalities will suffice. For
example, consider the American Cancer Society. It can reasonably
claim to represent cancer patients who aren't even members. I
believe you have claimed that DNRC represents domain name holders,
but by the standard you seem to profess at this point in time, such a
claim would be ridiculous -- domain name holders for the most part
have no idea that the DNRC exists.
--
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
