Question: Would you favor democratizing the process of creating new TLDs to allow the At Large membership to vote on the proposals? Would you favor also giving the At Large membership the ability to vote to transfer a TLD to a new administrator as a check upon the TLD administrators?

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Lawrence Lessig - posted on 2000-10-09 20:30:07 No. At-large members elect a board to do the work of the corporation. Barbara Simons - posted on 2000-10-09 19:00:30 We should create many many new TLDs. Involving the at large membership in the process would be cumbersome and would most likely delay the process. Let's focus instead on eliminating the artificial scarcity that the current system of a very limited number of TLDs creates. Lyman Chapin - posted on 2000-10-09 16:40:40 No. The at-large membership is just one of the constituencies to which ICANN is beholden - a very important constituency, but not the only one. I'm in favor of greatly increasing the voice of the at-large membership on the ICANN board (at least half of ICANN's directors should be directly elected by the at-large members), but I don't think that at-large voting on every issue would work in practice. Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-10-09 16:06:14 I think there should be no real limits on new TLDs. Let whoever wants one submit their proposed TLD to ICANN and let ICANN put it up on the auction block for all to see and bid upon. I think in general, the at large membership should not vote on specific grants of TLDs; but voting on the general policy of TLD allocation would be fine. Harris Miller - posted on 2000-10-09 11:39:31 1. No. 2. No.