David, unfortunately, I think you are misusing my claim of "uniqueness." I go on to say that we should "
borrow heavily from the "playbooks" of existing non-profits and private companies (whether publicly-traded or not), [but]their solutions will need to be customized (more or less) to suit our situation." And as I've stated to Olivier, I think we have a great deal to learn from corporate governance methods for "for profit" companies as well as non-profits. I think Chuck is using Verisign because he is familiar with it -- not because it is a unique paragon of corporate accountability. We can substitute another company from another country with basically the same result.
These type of non-substantive arguments really take us away from the actual pros and cons of ideas and proposals.-- that is the real "red herring" problem to me, and we seem to be accumulating enough red herrings to open a Hollandse nieuwe haring stand in Amsterdam....