> The Barcelona/Monterrey DNSO has a quite broad base of participation:
> registries, ccTLD NICs, ISOC, various telcos, business and trademark groups,
> etc.
It is my position that "groups" should not have any voting role whatsoever
in any part of ICANN or its SO's.
People should have the sole voting power.
Of course people can form groups to share ideas and to agree upon common
approaches and pay for the expense of promoting those common goals.
But such groups should achieve power only by means of the number of people
they can motivate to vote in accord with those organizational/group
agendas.
For example, if the trademark folks can convince people that it is a good
idea to restrict the number of new TLDs, that's fine.
But it is not fine to pre-build in a power for trademark folks that is not
based on anything more than a guess as to their relative strength at some
arbitrary point in time.
One ought to consider groups like trademark owners and registry operators
to be political parties -- they can form, evolve, merge, or die -- and
they achieve their life and voice through the number of the electorate,
i.e. people, who they can convince to follow the group's flag.
--karl--
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