Mark Langston wrote:
>
>Are you planning on implementing literacy tests and poll taxes to ensure
>only those who are interested and informed vote? The USA has been through
>this particular aspect of democracy before, Esther. Jim Crow laws were
>declared unconstitutional years ago.
>
>Or perhaps you'd like to predate suffrage and ensure that only landowners
>have a vote.
Mark,
If ICANN would only follow the path that the USA has followed on the road
to universal suffrage (and does it in Internet time)!
In the historical context Jim Crow laws were constitutional stepping stones
in the bootstrap process of democracy.
But in ICANN the landowners and taxpayers (Domain Name Owners) don't have a
vote.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org (or direct:)
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
