Re: CONSENSUS? [ga] DNSO General Assembly call to change seatingrule

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, at 11:42 [=GMT-0800], Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:15:00PM -0600, Weisberg wrote:
> > Kent Crispin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:11:03AM -0600, Weisberg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The issue of legitimacy is quite real.
> > >
> > > Yes, but you overlook a very fundamental question.  Legitimacy with
> > > whom?
> > 
> > No.  I defined "legitimacy" in terms of the governed, and their power to
> > affect who shall represent them.  How would you define it?
> 
> ICANN isn't a government.
> 
> The entities over which ICANN has direct influence are registries,
> registrars, and standards bodies.  They would constitute the 
> "governed". 

Would you subscribe to the idea that only those who pay tax, should
have a vote?

-- 
Marc Schneiders

"In re tam iusta nulla est deliberatio."
(Acta SS. Mart. Scillitanorum [AD 202]) 

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