RE: [ALSC-Forum] geographical representation

[Bruce Young]

Tell Vittorio for me that he's 100% correct!

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon
byoung651@home.com
http://members.home.net/byoung651/index.html


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-forum@www.atlargestudy.org
[mailto:owner-forum@www.atlargestudy.org]On Behalf Of Joop Teernstra
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:16 PM
To: forum@atlargestudy.org
Subject: [ALSC-Forum] geographical representation



To stress the point I made about the arbitrary and divisive slicing up of
the globe,

here is a recent comment from a subscriber (Vittorio Bertola) to
icann-europe:


>Anyway, frankly speaking, I don't really care about how many European or US
>directors are in the Board. I only care about how many of them are there to
>serve in good faith the general public interest of the world, and how many
>of them are there to serve personal or lobby interests. And I, as a
citizen,
>require that the system is built so that the highest number of skilled,
>competent, but also free, equilibrate, fair and open minded persons are
>elected in the Board. I am confident enough in the qualities of the
Internet
>community to think that a worldwide general election would be a good way to
>raise that number, and to in turn involve and make aware every single
person
>of his own right and duty to care about the future of the net and about the
>people that will determine it.





--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
the Cyberspace Association and
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/