Uh, I see that somebody has cc-in a newsgroup. I un-cc'd it.
> Milton has a good point there. Trademark interests should not be put in
> a special membership class.
>
> I also think that the registry membership class should be merged with the
> registrar membership class into a domain name services provider class.
How about eliminating membership classes and organizational membership
altogether?
Classes are merely arbitrary categories.
Classes create imbalances of power.
Classes only serve to give classes with a small or cohesive population a
bigger effective per-capita vote.
The atomic unit of interest and representation is the individual human.
Organizations and corporations are formed of, operated by, and
owned by humans.
Let organizations and corporations obtain their vote via indirection --
let them obtain their vote by convincing their so-called members to vote
for the organization's slate.
If the individuals use their vote the way the organization says, then that
organization has power. If the individuals chose to ignore what the
organization says, then that organization has no power.
In other words, one person, one vote. One organization, zero vote.
It seems to work reasonably well in most democratic countries -- Here in
the US, neither General Motors nor AT&T gets a vote for Congress or the
President. (Yet they don't seem to have trouble getting their issues
heard.)
--karl--
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