> I don't disagree with Karl about the lack of a need for a PSO...
Let me elaborate a bit more --
I do find the basic notion of a PSO itself to be superflous to ICANN. And
I find all of its current formulations to be contrary to the principles of
the White Paper.
But I also object to *any* supporting organization that uses
"constituencies" as a way of Gerrymandering the voting structure.
Giving votes to constituencies is "a bad thing"(tm).
Let people and entities form whatever coalitions they desire, let them
mutate and reform as conditions change. Let those coalitions express
their power via the number of individials that they can convince to cast
their votes in accord with the coalition's point of view.
Those would be true self-forming coalitions.
The nonesense of pre-establishing groups on some pre-supposed notion of
common interest is nothing better than a guess, and it has the effect of
ossifying the voting structure and hence pre-ordaining the result of many
future decisions.
--karl--
