Re: [ICANN-EU] Independent support for Jeanette Hofmann

[Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:25AM +0200, Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net> wrote:
> >ICANN is of any concern: they just have to, or boycott it, which is very
> >difficult.

> It's not so difficult.

How?

> What if the national registries for 3-4 (or more) major European
> countries do not pay their ICANN fee? Do you think that their

It is very very difficult to get 3-4 major european registries to boycott
ICANN.

> ccTLDs will (or should) be removed from the root? (BTW, this is a good

Yes, of course they should be removed ;) If the rules say you have to pay
and they don't pay a reaction is needed. This could of course result in
ignoring icann.

> very different from the distribution of Internet users, registered domains
> or whatever number you could think of as a reasonable way to measure
> Internet usage. So if the method chosen to elect the representatives does
> not reflect the actual distribution, it is the method to be wrong, not the
> reality.

The number of people actively caring for icann (i.e. "politics") is
just as reasonable as the number of registered domains, from different
viewpoints. It is senseless to talk about the possibility of wrong methods
when it's very unclear what the corretc method to choose the corretc
method should be (note the recursion!).

;)

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