Dear Jordan, thanks for your looking into this in further detail. My comment below: On 19/01/2015 16:00, Jordan Carter wrote:
It would be straightforward and possible to make e.g. SO and AC chairs effective "members" of ICANN (we define our own membership system). It would be harder to allow individuals with some standing to join stakeholder constituencies of voters and then allocate shares of total votes across these in a fair way. It would be possible but mad to have a "one member one vote" system where a ccTLD manager had the same say as an Internet user.
Isn't what you're describing ICANN version 1, with thousands of individual voters? I agree that did not work and will not work today either. However, I would also really urge caution in turning ICANN into a purely membership organisation that allocates shares of total votes according to size of organisational members. I have seen membership organisations being captured by large players buying out smaller players - the endgame being $$$ controlling the organisation and *not* the public interest. Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html