Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> How do you deal with a clueless membership? Say they
> voted unanimously to make anybody with a nameserver
> pay $1 everytime sombody used it for a lookup and
> if you didn't pay this you couldn't run a nameserver
> period.
>
> How do you deal with things like that ?
>
Excellent question. Allowing SOs to appoint (presumably) clueful Board members
is the solution ICANN chose.
Under the present ICANN structure, the membership doesn't get to vote for or
against a $1/domain fee. They only get to elect 9 Board members who may or
may not support such a position, but then the other 9 Board members may vote
against it and therefore block it.
Further, ICANN isn't a government with guns to enforce such a policy. If such
a decision was intolerable to the greater number of the constituents having to
pay it, would it really fly at all?
Diane Cabell
http://www.mama-tech.com
Fausett, Gaeta & Lund, LLP
Boston, MA
