[governance] ICANN/USG Affirmation of Commitments

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<76f819dd0910151202y2a0ac3bbna59f0435a6a21558 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
12:02:43 on Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> writes
>Roland, you dropped out of the debate about democracy and ICANN,

I had said everything I wanted to.

>Is this your hypothetical question about Cameroon and such?

Yes. And while it's hypothetical today, I'm 99% sure that such a 
decision will need to be made in the foreseeable future. Two groups of 
people are on a collision course!

[I have no special interest in either the Cameroons, or Wales, but it's 
an elegant example to highlight the difficulties than can arise in a 
congested name-space]

>  If so, please understand that even if you proved your apparent "case" 
>that there are difficulties of implementation in your (straw man) 
>version of democracy, it does not follow whatsoever that any old thing, 
>most especially an un-democratic any old thing, can take the  place of 
>some version of democracy.

Which is why I asked what precise form of democracy *you* recommend to 
resolve the 'collision' I described.

>It would be more enlightening for you to answer the question:
>
>Do you believe any subset of the people, whether "experts" or owners,
>have the right to define and/or control or regulate the common life of
>people on the Internet?

I'm trying to discover what subset of the people *you* would recommend 
made decisions to resolve 'collisions' like the one I described.

Or if it's "all of the people", how would you organise a ballot on this 
'collision', that would avoid the drawbacks I mentioned in my original 
question.

-- 
Roland Perry
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