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Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance
I repeat my main point: there is no logical reason to treat the numerous
public differently from the numerous firms. Even if one accepts the
dubious corporatist assumption that firms deserve representation separate
from the people who compose them -- we don't after all let firms
('artificial persons' in the law of most states) vote in national
elections, do we? -- I can't see why even under corporatist principles
they should be treated differently.
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, veni markovski wrote:
At 11:25 6/28/2007 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
The fact they stopped is more a measure of the fact that ICANN wasn't
listening to anything it didn't want to hear. I know that a large number
of civil society groups decided at pretty much the same time that spending
money trying to move ICANN was pouring money away.
Well, I know differently. That makes us people with different knowledge,
which is good. Now that we've shared it, we both have more knowledge.
As for the RALOs they're so far from the Board's ear that one wonders
whether anyone takes them seriously or if they're just there to let ICANN
insiders bamboozle the press.
Perhaps instead of spending time on this list, people with knowledge could
contribute much better within the RALOs; however the problem is that at the
RALOs there are new people, who don't have all this history behind them (you
have noticed how some of "them" start each, or almost every, e-mail with the
words "long time ago", or similar:), and that makes them not the usual
negativists.
veni
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