Let me pose a question that has not been considered in this thread and
which I think is important.
Isn't there some protection of the rights of minorities built into the
fact that the DNSO only recommends DN policy to ICANN?
The will of the majority can only make a recommendation. The DNSO
recommendation then will be forwarded to a board of professionals (the
ICANN Board) who will have to make an independent judgment about whether
to adopt it. And the judgment of the ICANN Board, in turn, will be
informed by input from the other two SOs, and eventually perhaps, from
the ICANN general membership.
So isn't this an adequate check on "the tyranny of the majority?"
-- Bret
>> That you do not believe that (popular) democracy is a good system is your
>> privilege.
>Popular democracy, without protection for minorities, is simply
>institutionalized discrimination. It's great for the majority, lousy
>for the minority. History abounds with examples, but it is obvious
>from first principles.
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