Re: [ga] Re: [governance] RALO

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> But pardon me, if on one side you have ten organizations with a total of
> ~1000 members, and on the other you have 20 individuals, why should they
> have the same weight?

They don't.  The 20 individuals outweight the ten organizations, period.

The atomic unit of internet governance is the individual human.

Besides, organizations have a nice warm home in ICANN already, its called 
the Non-Commercial constituency.  In fact there is even a more deeply 
ensconsed ICANN body whose membership claims to represent every person on 
the planet - the GAC.

People may chose to form coalitions to express their opinions, but at the 
end of the day when it comes time to weigh each measure and make decisions 
the only way to know what people really think is to ask the people 
themselves, not the organizations that claim to represent them.

The idea that people are only as good as the organizations who represent 
them, an idea often called corporatism, was an idea that flourished in the 
1930's and, fortunately, died during the first half of the 1940's.  We 
don't need to revive it for the internet.

	--karl--