Re: [atlarge-discuss] Challenge from Ross Rader

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 09:06 p.m. 22/08/2002 -0400, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

>  There are those
> that are demanding rights for "users" that aren't domain name holders in the
> ICANN process.  Ross is asking why that set of "users" should be entitled to
> elect directors, and otherwise participate...
Divisive and for the moment irrelevant question.
As if the battle for the Registrants has been won already!

> Think of Eric's shoe-shine boy.  Should that "user", who perhaps participates
> only to the degree that he occasionally uses an Internet cafe, have voting
> rights, and if so, why?
All users are potential registrants. The barrier may seem high for Eric's 
shoeshine boy, but *if* one day he has a strong desire to have his own 
Domain, and scrapes the money for a registration together, he should be 
treated like a free  "landowner" and not like  a "crofter" on ICANN's land.

Value is created at the edges by shoeshine boys like you and me. If ICANN 
tries to grab the Center it should bloody well have a mechanism for consent 
of the governed, worldwide.

--Joop


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