Re: [ga] More thoughts on a Registrants Constituency

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:14 PM 3/9/2007, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> This need for our combined intelligence is why I am so strongly in favor 
> of election systems that admit individual people as electors.

Karl,

I don't think this argument is going to temp the ICANN staff not to 
obstruct the idea of an registrant GNSO constituency, let alone an At Large 
of registrants that directly elects a significant number of board members.

I see the need for democracy and voting not as something that gives the 
benefit of combined  intelligences.  If it does anywhere, that particular 
governance system is extremely fortunate.:-)

The need for elections and individual voters springs from another argument: 
there is no other way for the represented to *ensure* that their 
representatives (in the GNSO or on the Board) have an honest mandate to 
represent  registrants At Large.

To facilitate the bootstrapping of a constituency I have no problem 
starting out with appointees , but sooner or later any mandate must be 
subjected to the feedback of votes.



-joop-