Diane and all,
Diane Cabell wrote:
> Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>
> > How do you deal with a clueless membership? Say they
> > voted unanimously to make anybody with a nameserver
> > pay $1 everytime sombody used it for a lookup and
> > if you didn't pay this you couldn't run a nameserver
> > period.
> >
> > How do you deal with things like that ?
> >
>
> Excellent question. Allowing SOs to appoint (presumably) clueful Board members
> is the solution ICANN chose.
And a solution that did not have broad stakeholder consensus by any means.
Also not to mention, the membership (Yet to be formed) had to VOTE on
this dubious solution that the ICANN (Initial?) Interim board made unilaterally
as well...
>
>
> Under the present ICANN structure, the membership doesn't get to vote for or
> against a $1/domain fee. They only get to elect 9 Board members who may or
> may not support such a position, but then the other 9 Board members may vote
> against it and therefore block it.
And this is skewed as well as in direct violation of the principals of the
White Paper.
>
>
> Further, ICANN isn't a government with guns to enforce such a policy. If such
> a decision was intolerable to the greater number of the constituents having to
> pay it, would it really fly at all?
I hope not.
>
>
> Diane Cabell
> http://www.mama-tech.com
> Fausett, Gaeta & Lund, LLP
> Boston, MA
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