ICANN Mulls Poll Taxes, Representation

Posted by michael on Tuesday November 6, 2001 @02:40AM from the silicon-valley-tea-party dept.

Cutriss writes: "The ICANN seems to be thinking about giving in to public demands. According to this article on Wired.com mentions that ICANN is considering allowing domain owners to elect their board of directors. It's a step in the right direction. I wonder if domain owners could collaborate and cast a collective vote of no confidence, absolving ICANN of its responsibilities..." I wouldn't call it a step in the right direction since each revision to ICANN's Board involves less individual representation and more corporate representatives. There's another story with some quotes from Karl Auerbach. The At-Large study that we talked about earlier has now been released in its final form. If you don't like the way ICANN is going, please consider attending their meetings. Next one is in Los Angeles next week.

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Be afraid... by imrdkl · 2001-11-06 03:46 · Score: 3, Funny
Why not just take the next step now? Lets have weighted voting based on things like:
- How well you entertained the current ICANN board members when they visited your town or place of business
- How many of the children of the board members you offered free scholarships
- How many free vacations, car rentals, plane fares, etc you offered to the current board members.
After decades of decadence, we can even demand that they reform. Just like the IOC!