Re: [ga] significant user representation

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  And you were the only good Bod member ICANN ever had to
date in our members opinion that were allowed to vote.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Danny Younger wrote:
>
> > re:  "trying to evaluate the level of representativeness of any
> > individual or group putting forth views is useful"
>
> > According to the year 2000 census, in the United States we have
> > 6,773,632 business establishments
>
> If we're going to have a game of chest thumping...
>
> Given that I am one of the very few people who actually stood the test
> of an open election in which everyone over the age of 18 was eligible to
> vote, and in which I won the "North American" seat, it can said with
> some force that I am the proper representative of the 330,000,000 people
> of what ICANN defined as "North America", including their businesses and
> other aggregates (schools, unions, local governments, etc).
>
> (Now,of course, in reality the number of people who registed to vote and
> who actually did vote was, as in the case of many elections, rather less
> than the number who could vote.
>
> But then again, I did win by a margin that was, in percentage terms, by
> some lights even in numerical terms, larger than the margin in the US
> Presidential election of year 2000. ;-)
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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