Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Direct vs. Indirect elections

[Jeff Williams]

Joop and all stakeholders or interested parties,

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 08:26 19/10/01 -0700, Eric Dierker wrote:
>
> >Yes it does Leah,
> >
> >But the issue by in large is not being ignored.  Although in principal we
> >may lose the first round for non domain name holders it will be better than
> >no progress.
>
> This is also my view. By starting to ask for the (near) impossible, you
> help guaranteeing that we never get user input at all.

  Nothing created by man is impossible.

>
>
> Domain Name Holders have a strong case as stakeholders in the DNS.

  Yes we do.  No more so than non-domain name holders though.  In fact
the majority of the stakeholders are users and they also provide the vast
majority of the funds that keep the net running.  The MoU and White
Paper guarantees them equal participation.  They belong even more
so than do Domain name holders.

>
> They need a channel of communication with the supply -side in this
> industry, within an ICANN where their vote counts.
>
> Wider democracy where Internet users without Domains can have a voice, can
> come when the first objective has actually been realized and tested for
> effectiveness.
>
> In the non-internet history of democracy too we have seen an evolutionary
> process.
> Suffrage rights were first obtained by taxpayers, then by all people with
> some education, then the women were included, and only then  all above a
> certain age limit got the vote.
>
> --Joop

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