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Bret Fausett's Modest Proposal: Bring Back Elected Directors
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I agree that the ICANN's repeated pointing to the difficult of elections is nothing more than a lame excuse.
However, I disagree that the electorate/membership should be limited to domain name holders. Remember, ICANN's purpose is to promote the technical stability of the internet's DNS and IP address allocation systems. And both of those systems impact users at least as much as providers.
The reason why domain name ownership is an attractive qualifier is that it involves a financial transaction, which acts as an implicit mode of identification and verification of that identity. It wouldn't bother me to have to go through some identification hoop in order to register to vote. Unfortunately a lot of folks don't have pre-established financial credentials that on which we can easily piggy-back. But I suspect that there exist some reasonable solutions.
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Re:Even in Tiny Delaware....
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"However, I disagree that the electorate/membership should be limited to domain name holders" ...thus ensuring that the notion of participation will go nowhere, and domain registrants will continue to get a screwing. Domain name registrants are the ones PAYING for this entire "private management" circus. Funny how there's no objection to limiting participation primarily to them what are being paid.
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