At 12:43 PM -0700 9/10/99, Greg Skinner wrote:
>Frank Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Dave, it may not be for "bad or evil" purposes. I agree with you
> >here. But, things are being done for self-serving big-business
> >purposes. It's just sad that we have ICANN being bought out by
> >high-priced lobbyists (not unlike our own government) but we don't
> >have the mechanism to vote the bastards out of of office.
>
>Are you sure that a public vote would not have the same results?
>After all, the people who are lobbying ICANN right now will just
>directly lobby the government(s) who wind up setting up Internet
>policy if ICANN falls.
>
>I'm all for voting, but I don't expect that a public vote would
>have outcomes much different than those which generally favor big
>business.
If a public vote had the same outcome, I could live with it. I
believe in democracy. Though I highly doubt that a vote would come
out with the same cast of characters as ICANN is today. And if they
knew that they could be voted out in 12 months, they'd do a better
job of being accountable to ALL of their constituents, not just "the
coalition of trademark, regulatory and e-commerce interests behind
it".
-riz
