If tyranny is the arbitrary exercise of power, then it is irrelevant in the
context of the DNSO because the DNSO has no power.
David Schutt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bret A.
> Fausett
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 1999 11:31 AM
> To: IFWP Discussion List
> Subject: [ifwp] Re: Objections to a flat structure
>
>
> 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
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