Re: [IFWP] Esther Dyson's reply

[Karl Auerbach]

> In practical terms, I don't think a "global" vote makes sense. A vote of
> people worldwide, yes, but only of interested parties who know what they are
> voting about.

Interesting comment when one considers that one of the rumored selection
criteria for the original board was they they were outsiders and did not
have knowledge of the issues in which ICANN would be involved.

As for ICANN's metric of "interested".  It appears to be a metric based on
the extraction of profits from the Internet.  Network "providers" and
e-commerce businesses get automatic constituency status in ICANN while
Internet users aren't even allowed to see what happens, much less
participate in a meaningful way (except to pay indirect domain name taxes
and otherwise foot the bill.)

                --karl--