Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 08:22:33PM +0000, Daniel Kaplan wrote:
[...]
> 
> So my suggestion(s) is/are: No classes. Individuals and organizations can
> be members and get one vote each. Anyone coming up with the initiation fee
> and the necessary identification can be a member.

I agree, with a caveat: At the level of vote-counting it should be
one person - one vote.  That is, I can't join as Kent Crispin,
individual; and join as Songbird, the business; and ABC, the
organization; and XYZ, another organization, and  get 4 votes.  The 
rules should be:  any individual or organization can join; an 
organization joining must select a person to represent them; every
person who is a member, whether on their own behalf, or as a 
representative of an organization, gets exactly one vote.  So, if 
two organizations designate the same person as their representative, 
they effectively merge their votes into a single vote.

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair				"Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com				lonesome." -- Mark Twain