[ncdnhc-discuss] HP/Compaq vote and .org reassignment

[James Love]

The recent HP/Compaq vote is a good illustration of the democracy that is
available to shareholders in for-profit corporations.

It would seem to us to be fairly simple to allow every .org domain holder to
vote to express preferences with regard to who should get the .org bid.
Unlike the at large election, there is a known list of potential voters, and
also a ready and inexpensive way to contact them and to verify who they are.
Verisign, who is making millions off of .org, could bear the costs of
election, as a cost of the transfer, but the election could be run by a
trusted third party, of which there are several who do this.

This type of "bottom-up" opinion making would be innovative and fair, and
help resort confidence in the ICANN process.   Such a vote does even have to
be binding, and could include feedback even on preferred management models
or objectives.   I also think it would be much better than the GA process,
since it is so difficult to keep up with all of the GA flaming, and a .org
vote would be "pure" in the sense that it would only include views of people
who use and pay for .org domains.

 Jamie

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